Kwara intensifies efforts in tackling insecurity

The Kwara State government has expressed its determination to arrest the rising cases of insecurity in the state, saying the state government is doing a lot in the area of security but not all the efforts in that sector can be disclosed to the public.

Olabode Towoju, the state commissioner for Communications, made this known in Ilorin while fielding questions from journalists at a personality news programme tagged ‘Newskeg’ at the secretariat of the Correspondents’ Chapel of NUJ, Muritala Mohammed Road, Ilorin.

“You remember in a couple of days ago we had a security challenge at Obo-Aiyegunle axis and His Excellency, quickly gave a marching order and serious searching is ongoing to apprehend the criminals terrorising the people of that area and you could also recall that the notorious criminal ‘Dogo’ who had caused mayhem not only in Kwara but Niger, Ekiti and Kogi too was sent to the world beyond here in Kwara state. We are seriously up and doing in the area of security.”

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Responding on the allegation of misappropriation of public funds among members of the past administration; Towoju vowed that all persons involved would be brought to book.

“We are not giving up on ensuring those that siphoned our collective patrimony and put the state in wretched condition are brought to book. The justice mostly comes very slowly but when it comes to pass it could be very devastating. We should also not forget that we are talking of the people who are very clever in their way, who keep hiding under technical grounds to checkmate all our moves. But moving forward, we have engaged the services of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to fight most of the cases and we are confident that every one of them will be brought to book,” he said.

On the recent detection of some All Progressives Congress (APC) members defecting to other parties after the primary elections, the commissioner said they were not jittery about the people that left after losing in the primaries, adding that Kwara has grown beyond someone hand-picking candidates at the detriment of others that are more popular and acceptable to the electorate.

He also said that the governor and the party presidential candidates will win the forthcoming elections convincingly.