BREAKING NEWS
The Ebira Youth Elites Organisation of Nigeria has
warned the Kogi State governor, Alh. Yahyah Bello, against turning the state
into a confluence of blood.
Kogi Crisis: "You're Turning The State Into A Confluence Of
Blood" Ibira Youth Slams Belo
The Ebira Youth Elites Organisation of Nigeria has
warned the Kogi State governor, Alh. Yahyah Bello, against turning the state
into a confluence of blood.
The warning came following last weekend’s crisis
that erupted in some parts of Kogi state, especially Ebira land between youths
suspected to be political thugs.
In a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja and signed by
the group’s president, Yunusa Jimoh, the community based organization said Kogi
was gradually turning to a Confluence of blood under the current administration
led by governor Bello.
It also condemned “the violent attacks and reported
counter-attack on political opponents and wish to refresh our memories to the not-so-recent
past when we had a terrible war of attrition among brothers. That dark period,
no doubt, set us back for several decades”.
Part of the statement reads; “While some few
altruistic youths are daily racking their brains, networking and rallying forces
to draw attention to the long-neglected Ajaokuta Steel Company, it is shameful
that some members of the political class who have lost their voices as regards
this noble national endeavour are now trying to come back to political
reckoning by using as a launchpad, crude underhand tactics, including violence
just in the lead-up to the 2019 General Elections.
“In case our politicians have forgotten or do not
know, may we kindly remind them that even in Katsina, President Muhammadu
Buhari’s home state, there are still several opposition parties and for them,
the sky is big enough for each one to pursue its legitimate aspirations.
“Ours is a Confluence of Peace, not of blood. As we
approach a crucial election year, partisans must play by the rules and avoid
this gradual descent into anarchy or a return to the dark days of organized
terror and thuggery.
“We make bold to say that an eye for an eye would
soon make all of us go blind.
“From our research, poverty and drug abuse are at
the root of the wave of violence that is threatening to engulf the land. While
we urge the political class to do more to stem the rising tide of poverty in
the land, we call on the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA and other
security agencies in the state to devise workable mechanisms of tracking the
suppliers and sellers of these hard drugs.
“We also call on security agencies who are saddled
with the onerous task of maintaining law and order to act on actionable
intelligence at their disposal to rein in the forces of terror in our land.
“EYEN also commend those who have intervened and
helped in putting an end to the impending disaster, among who is the Governor
of Kogi State Alh. Yahaya Bello and his intervention team led by Engr. Abubakar
Ohere. We implore all that are affected to adhere to wise counsel as we pray
God to continue to sustain his peace in our hearts, our homes and in our
community.
“EYEN sympathizes with the injured and those whose
properties were destroyed. We urge them not to make a resort to the use of
brute force by trying to retaliate.
“We certainly do not want a day whereby few forces
of evil would reduce Ebiraland to a Hobbesian state where life would become
hellish, nasty, brutish and short. May that day never come.”
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