In 2019, Kogi State was invited to a ‘North Central Security Summit’ which turned out to be a ‘peace meeting’ with band!ts in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
Former Governor Yahaya Bello arrived and saw other governors of the region and the nation’s top security agency heads seated while leaders of the bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, etc were strutting in like princes and preening like peacocks, adorned with Kalashnikovs and slung about the neck with bandoliers of bullets.
He protested vehemently, declaring that he cannot and will not sit with or negotiate with criminals. When his colleagues and other attendees were minded otherwise, he took his people and left the meeting.
One of the most notorious bandits there had the temerity to confront him, promising to pay special attention to his territory and make it ungovernable for him. #WhiteLion only promised him that the day he crossed over to Kogi would be his last.
Long story made short. Within a couple of months the bandit leader was hunted down and eliminated.
– Barr. Moses Okezie
