Kogi Governor
Bello
Security, top
Kogi Governor
Bello
Security, top priority in Yahaya Bello’s administration
– CPS
Kogi State government has implemented deliberate reforms and
policy actions introduced by Governor Yahaya Bello to arrest the
tide of insecurity in the state, Onogwu Muhammed, the Chief Press
Secretary to the governor, disclosed.
The CPS, recalled that last year the governor recruited about
6,000 vigilante security personnel in the state.
According to the CPS, each of the vigilante members received a
motorcycle, and have been mandated to interact with people in rural
communities, so as to gather vital information for analysis and
prompt response by mainstream security agencies.
“Securing lives and properties is the most fundamental
responsibility of any government. And that, exactly, is what the
Governor Yahaya Bello-led administration is doing in Kogi
State.
Mr Muhammed added: “The streams of successes recorded in the
area of security have attracted accolades and commendations for the
State Government, from prominent persons and institutions across
the country.
“The State Government has spent a lot on security in the last
three years.
We procured and distributed over 155 patrol vans, together with
motorcycles to various security outfits.
“Governor Yahaya Bello has also enhanced the allowances of
various security personnel serving in the State.
“These are strategies that have helped to boost Intelligence
gathering,” he said.
“Before the advent of this government, Kogi State was the hotbed
for all sort of crises, and crimes.
“There were incidences of kidnapping in the State. It even
became so worse that a serving commissioner, under the then PDP-led
administration, was kidnapped.
“The kidnappers did not also spare our traditional rulers. They
were responsible for the murder of a prominent Igala traditional
leader in 2014.
“But, presently, residents of the state now sleep without being
apprehensive of criminal elements attacking them or invading their
homes, either in broad daylight or at night.”