The Senate on Wednesday adopted sweeping resolutions aimed at confronting Nigeria’s worsening security crisis, formally classifying kidnapping as an act of terrorism and endorsing the death penalty for convicted offenders, with “no option of fines” and no room for judicial leniency. The fiery session was triggered by the November 18 attack on Christ Apostolic Church, Eruku, in Kwara State’s Ekiti Local Government Area, where armed men killed two worshippers and abducted 38 others. Although all hostages were eventually freed through coordinated operations involving the military, police, DSS, and local vigilantes, senators said the incident exposed a dangerous expansion of insurgent networks and the collapse of security in rural communities.
