Some angry youths, on Wednesday, invaded the Secretariat of Kogi local government council over the suspension of the local government council chairman, Mallam Abdulkareem Isah, for alleged criminal involvement while in office.
The Kogi State House of Assembly had, on Wednesday, suspended Isah from office as a result of a resolution by members of the house when the Speaker of the Assembly Prince Mathew Kolawole read a letter from Governor Bello indicting the council boss of alleged criminal activities.
However, the angry youths numbering over 50 in number in annoyance after they got the news of the chairman’s suspension from office invaded the local government council secretariat and destroyed properties worth thousands of naira while some council officials sustained various degrees of injuries
It took the intervention of security agents to bring the situation under control.
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Meanwhile, the Kogi State Commissioner for solid minerals and natural resources, Engr. Abubakar Bashir Gegu, has expressed total disappointment over an attack, on Wednesday, at the council secretariat by some hoodlums allegedly working for the suspended Chairman of Kogi local government, Hon. Abdulkareem Isah, where some council officials sustained various degrees of injuries and properties worth thousands of naira were destroyed.
The commissioner who condemned the attack noted that the security agencies have been brief to intensify efforts aimed to bring those miscreants at large to book.
The commissioner urged the people of Koton-Karfe, Kogi local government council to remain committed to the cause of new direction government and as well call for calm in the area.
The commissioner while reacting to the suspension of the council boss expressed deep concern with the way the suspended chairman ordered his boys to attack some serving council officials, his loyalists and APC stalwarts which led to serious injury of the councillor representing Gegu-Beki South, Hon.Abdulmumini Mohammed Ojallah.
The commissioner urged the residents of the Kogi local government council to go on with normal activities and assured of adequate security of life and properties.
He said the law enforcement agents have already swift into action in order to bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act. He sympathised with the affected people and called for calm, assuring them that they will get justice.
The commissioner equally urged the people of the area to partner with the security agents in order to sustain the ongoing campaign against crime and as well to provide robust security architecture in line with the Administration of Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
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