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By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja
Kogi State Governor Ahmed Ododo has vowed to enactment an extremity to amerciable mining and banditry successful the state.
The politician made the declaration connected Monday during a sojourn to Isanlu-Esa successful Yagba West Local Government Area, which was precocious plagued by kidnapping and killings.
Governor Ododo, who was accompanied by apical information officials, including the State Commissioner of Police, CP Milan Dantalaye and different heads of information agencies, assured the assemblage that the authorities authorities would bash everything imaginable to support lives and property.
He warned that the authorities would not tolerate immoderate signifier of transgression and would woody decisively with anyone recovered aiding oregon abetting transgression activities.
In his words, “If you are aiding oregon abetting a crime, you volition beryllium treated arsenic a criminal. Illegal miners indispensable beryllium brought to book.”
The politician commended the gallantry of information agencies, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, and Department of State Services (DSS), for their efforts successful combating criminality successful the area. He besides acknowledged the invaluable contributions of the Hybrid Force from the Office of the National Security Adviser to the ongoing cognition successful Yagba West.
Ododo cautioned accepted rulers against indiscriminate allocation of onshore to chartless individuals, stressing that henceforth, anyone with mining licenses indispensable beryllium decently profiled by the authorities and information agencies to forestall information breaches.
He besides reaffirmed the enactment of President Bola Tinubu to guarantee bid and information crossed Kogi State and Nigeria astatine large, commending the National Security Adviser and the Security Chiefs for efficaciously implementing the president’s policies toward a safer nation.
The politician expressed condolences to the families of those who mislaid their lives successful the caller attacks and assured them that the authorities authorities would supply contiguous enactment to the affected families, portion besides paying tribute to the gallant officers who mislaid their lives successful the enactment of duty, assuring their families that their sacrifices would not beryllium successful vain.
While addressing the governor, the Commander of the Nigerian Army successful complaint of the 12 Brigade, Brigadier General K. U. Sidi, commended the combined efforts of the information agencies and thanked the politician for the sojourn and support.
The paramount Traditional Ruler of Isanlu-Esa, Chief Theophilus Olufemi, besides appreciated Governor Ododo for coming to his domain and urged the information agencies to prolong their beingness successful the country until each transgression elements are eliminated. Additionally, helium requested that the Federal Government repair the roadworthy to the assemblage to amended entree and boost information efforts.
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