This write-up is triggered by recent cases of political thuggery and brigandage in Okehi Local Government, Kogi State, by unknown criminal elements allegedly aided and abated by the executive arm of the local government that has taken the lead in bad governance under this government of Governor Yahaya Bello.
This writer is saddened that the local government is unknowingly giving the peace-loving governor a bad name and undeserved bad image in the State. It is sad that the state governor has not done the needful to call the Authority of the local government to order or sack him as a deterrent to others at a time like this, one of the greatest achievements of Governor Yahaya Bello in the last three years is his fight against insecurity in the state.
I have always said it that even if the governor could not pay salary, his success story in the area of security is enough to earn him a second term in office. We would recall that before his assumption in office the whole Kogi State was gripped in a miasma of statewide insecurity and a general sense of hopelessness on the part of good people of Kogi State.
It is also true that the immediate past governor, Alhaji Idris Ichala Wada, failed woefully to checkmate the activities of criminal elements that were having a field day in armed robbery, kidnapping, and raping of our innocent children and helpless women across the state. Against this background, therefore, it was a thing of joy for all Kogites when our gallant governor took the Bull by the horn in the area of insecurity across the state.
It is, therefore, a sad narrative that some overzealous disciples are unwitting trying to dent the image of the peace-loving governor by their alleged involvement in cases of thuggery and brigandage particular in Okehi local government.
For those of us who were alive during Governor Ibrahim Idris era could not help but condemned in totality this recurrence of our sad memories in the area of thuggery in Kogi central.
Before we forget, I wish to remind all of us that nobody should allow what happened in the past in Kogi central in the area of insecurity to rear its ugly head again.
At this juncture, I wish to call on the state governors to call some of his disciples to order at a time like this when political campaigns and Rallies are around the corner. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.
– Otori Ozigi, a retired public servant, journalist /Public Relations consultant.
