Date Published: 08/15/09
Kidnapping in Kogi State
Project IGALA
(IGALA ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION) RC: CAC/IT/NO 31459
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Friday 14 th August 2009
Project IGALA , a think-thank of Nigerian Intelligentsia of Igala extraction, with a membership that cuts across six continents and a focal commitment to the overall development of the Igala nation through educational, infrastructural and economic interventions, addressed the World Press recently on the dangerous slide to anarchy and violence in Kogi State.
Project IGALA notes with dismay the deplorable state of insecurity of lives and property in the state as evidenced in the recent gang violence in Lokoja and the senseless killings that attended the recent kidnap of two LG Chairmen in Kabba.
While appealing to our brothers to shun violence and refuse to be enlisted as thugs by desperate and empty politicians, we also appeal very strongly to our politicians in power and those aspiring to public offices to stop promoting violence on the account of their personal interest.
Equally disturbing is the seeming helplessness of Security Agencies like the SSS and the Police, and the conspiratorial silence of the State Government in the unfolding macabre dance in the state. These have fuelled the attractiveness of the declaration of a state of emergency in certain quarters.
We hereby call on the Governor of the state who should be an embodiment of all that is descent, God fearing and peaceful to publicly denounce thuggery and dispel the widely held position that he is actually the sponsor of these boys.
We therefore call on President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to, as a matter of urgent national importance, intervene by way of increased military and police presence in Igala land and Kogi state in general before the state cascades into an orgy of unmitigated violence, thuggery and militancy of stupendous proportions.
Project IGALA remains resolute in its drive to achieve communal peace and prosperity through socio-economic engineering of the Igala society.
Signed:
Barr. Musa Haruna
Scribe
Atâyi Babs
Moderator
