The Kogi government says “enemies of progress” and
“misguided politicians” are responsible for the explosion which occurred in the
state on Thursday.
Recall that an explosion rocked a community in
Okene LGA of the state on Thursday morning.
The incident took place at a mosque near the palace of Ado
Ibrahim, the paramount ruler of Ebiraland.
The blast occurred while President Muhammadu Buhari was in
the area to inaugurate projects completed by the state government.
Four persons were said to have been killed in the incident
while two others sustained injuries.
Kingsley Fanwo, the Kogi commissioner for information, had
initially debunked reports of an explosion, saying it was a “mere transformer
spark which injured one person”.
The information commissioner would later delete his tweets
on the incident.
FIRST OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In the first official acknowledgement of the explosion,
Jerry Omodara, security adviser to Yahaya Bello, Kogi governor, said there was
prior intelligence of the incident.
He said it was for this reason that “we had enough
deployment of security personnel across the state to be able to frustrate their
efforts”.
“Unfortunately, in spite of that, the enemies of progress
still tried to distract President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kogi by setting
that explosion,” NAN quoted him as saying.
“All the same, the deployment and tight security around
didn’t allow them to achieve their aim.
“This government can authoritatively say that the cause of
the blast was solely the act of misguided politicians and people who don’t want
anything good for their state.
“We are aware of some disgruntled politicians celebrating
the sad incident that happened today in Okene, where some innocent people lost
their lives.
“As a government, we believe that issues of security must
concern everyone, and until we all put our hands on deck, it will affect us in
one way or the other.
“The people who died today are some persons’ children,
brothers or relations, so it must concern all of us.
“But for some politicians to celebrate the blast is very
unfortunate and not the kind of politics that can move us forward in this state
and the nation as a whole.”
‘BUHARI’S VISIT WAS SUCCESSFUL DESPITE BLAST’
The security adviser noted that “the visit of our president,
Muhammadu Buhari, was very successful” in spite of the incident.
Omodara said the “enemies of the state” will continue to
fail in their antics to “ensure that this government doesn’t succeed in moving
Kogi forward”.
“Let it be a sound of warning to the disgruntled politicians
that Kogi will continue to be on top in area of security in this country as far
as Bello’s administration is concerned,” he said.
“His (Bello) interest
is to have peace in Kogi and nothing can distract him from that. We are
suspecting the man that perished in the car as the one who brought the bomb or
explosive to disrupt the programme for today.
“Already samples have been taken both human and vehicle
parts, and the police and other security agencies investigating the incident
will determine what exactly happened.
“The police and other security agencies will definitely come
up with their reports for the public to know. We are not resting on our oars
until the culprits are caught and brought to book.
“As a government, we sympathise and condole those families
that lost their loved ones to the explosion of today, Thursday.”
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