A socio-cultural group, Kogi Ethnic Nationalities Discussion board (KENF), has raised the alarm over an alleged plan to arm some hoodlums with subtle weapons and embellish them as safety operatives for the aim of invading the Authorities Home in Lokoja, Kogi State.
The group was responding to a menace from sure quarters to invade the Authorities Home in Lokoja looking for the immediate-past governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who they alleged was hiding within the facility.
In a press launch issued on Tuesday, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of KENF, Dr. Kennedy Owolabi, fingered folks he known as rejected politicians as being behind the transfer to stoke the embers of violence within the state and throw it into avoidable chaos.
He mentioned any try to invade the Authorities Home can be an act of coup that may be significantly resisted by each well-meaning indigene of Kogi State.
“We’re properly abreast with the knowledge on acquisition of automated weapons by determined politicians to arm hoodlums imported from neighbouring states to invade the Authorities Home,” Owolabi mentioned.
He known as on the worldwide group to indicate particular and deliberate curiosity within the alleged ongoing political persecution of former Governor Bello and the embarrassment Governor Ahmed Ododo had continued to obtain over a matter that’s already in court docket.
He questioned what would have fuelled desperation by some folks in authority utilizing the instrument of their establishments to suppress perceived political enemies.
The Discussion board described the act as determined politics taken too far, which was able to burning down the state if these perpetrating such illegal acts usually are not delivered to e-book or totally warned to desist from act able to truncating our fledging democracy.
“Whereas we perceive that that is nothing however a well-orchestrated plan to stage a coup to overthrow a constitutionally elected governor, they’ve instructed those that care to pay attention that they’re on the lookout for former governor Yahaya Bello.
“We dare ask, what authorized authority have they got to invade a Authorities Home if to not occupy the seat of the governor?
“What they might not obtain on the polls, they need to obtain with a barrel of gun. We should nevertheless make it clear to them that the folks of Kogi will resist them.
“Our folks don’t need to be taken again to the times of darkness. They’ve taken a choice on their alternative of management and they’re dedicated to defending it.
“Determined politicians should even be instructed that violence has no place within the new Kogi, however this should not be interpreted to imply cowardice. Those that need to stoke violence needs to be prepared to reap it in equal measure,” Owolabi acknowledged.
He additionally known as on the Commissioner of Police within the state and heads of the related safety businesses to be on their toes and be certain that those that need to truncate the peace within the state are arrested and made to face the total wrath of the regulation.