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| Yahaya Bello. |
The Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has challenged the Federal, States and Local governments to stop negotiating with kidnappers to address banditry and other forms of insecurity, as according to him, they should not be allowed to enjoy the proceeds of their crimes.
Bello
urged them to borrow a leaf from his administration, which has stopped
negotiating with bandits, which is the only way to drastically reduce the
menace of kidnapping with the perpetrators stopped from enjoying the proceeds
of the crime.
The
Governor who spoke during the Senate Press Corps’ Retreat 2020 with the theme,
“Democracy and development in a Federation: Roles of the Media, States and
Parliaments” in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, said the spate of kidnappings
in the state reduced to the barest minimum largely due to his administration’s
resolve to tackle the criminals headlong.
“Our
highways were littered with virtually weekly occurrences of armed robbery,
especially night travelers in luxurious buses, but in four years and nine
months later, though we have not been able to eradicate kidnappings totally,
the numbers have drastically reduced to the barest minimum as highway robberies
and bank robberies are becoming things that are in our history books rather
than what we experienced.
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