Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi state he’s committed to win the war against criminals, and enemies of peace and progress.
The governor stated this in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, on Saturday in Lokoja.
Ododo was quoted as saying that: “My administration is rising to the challenge of defeating the torrent of criminality waged against our dear state in the last one month.
“We believe that the torrent of attacks on insurgents, bandits and kidnappers in the North-East has dislodged them and many of them are now trying to find their feet in the North-Central.
“All the same, Kogi government is deploying an iron-cast approach to safeguarding the state from the fangs of these criminals “.
He said the recent rescue of 21 out of the 24 kidnapped students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), was a clear testament that Kogi would be ruthless against criminals in the state.
The government, he said, on Saturday received heart-warming reports of the rescue of two kidnapped women from Yagba West and Yagba East Local Government Areas of the state.
Ododo said the government had also secured the release of scores of kidnapped victims who were not even residents of the state but kidnapped in their various states and taken to the forests.
He added that: “We are still searching frantically for the three remaining CUSTECH students yet to be rescued.
“This is because every citizen’s life is important to the government.
“Consequently, I have approved the immediate employment of thousands of local hunters across the 21 local government areas of the state.”
