Insecurity: Kogi Govt. Setup special taskforce on illegal smuggling of firearms, appoints ex-Lawmaker, Friday Sanni as DG
IDRIS AHMED, LOKOJA.
Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has approved the appointment of Elder Friday Sanni as the Director General, “Special Task Force on illegal smuggling of firearms” to Kogi State.
The appointment was conveyed in a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Mrs Folashade Arike Ayoade, dated 8th May, 2023.
” The decision of the State Government to set up the Special Task Force is part of recalibration efforts in the security architecture of the state to ensure that firearms are not illegally smuggled into the state to perpetrate the nefarious activities of criminal elements.
“The Government is committed to ensuring criminality is reduced to near-zero level in the state,” the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo stated in a press release on Tuesday.
The State Government alleged that there is increase in proliferation of arms in the state and cannot afford a situation where firearms are in the hands of people who are neither licensed nor trained to handle them.
According to the Commissioner, the Taskforce will also afford those already in possession of firearms illegally to submit them voluntarily, before they are fished out.
” Elder Friday Sanni was a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, with a vast knowledge in security studies.” Fanwo stated
