Conventional and private security outfits operating in Kogi State have been assured of government support to ensure the sustenance of the peaceful atmosphere so far enjoyed in the State.
The Executive Chairman, Kogi State Security Trust Fund, Hon Samari Teina Abdulmalik, gave the assurance while receiving in audience the management, officers and men of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Lokoja Local Government Division in his office in Lokoja.
Samari said the Trust Fund was established to compliment the efforts of the government, especially in the area of logistics support to all the security outfits, stressing that the sharp division in the management of Vigilante Group of Nigeria has been the stumbling stone for the organization to benefit from the supports of the Trust Fund.
He urged them to settle their differences in the interest of the State and to enable the organization benefit from the Trust Fund’s support.
In his remarks, the Commander Lokoja local government, Mr Ahmad Muhammed Babangida, thanked Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello for his efforts in securing Kogi State and the Trust Fund for putting smiles on the faces of security agencies.
Babangida pledged the organization’s unalloyed support to the actualization of the Trust Fund’s mandates and assured that, the organization will settle its differences in no distant time and solicit the support of the Trust Fund to enable the organization perform optimally.
