Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has blamed the increase in banditry in some parts of the country to compromise by individuals and their various communities. Bello said this, yesterday, in Lokoja, in commemoration of the International Day of Peace with the theme, ‘Recovering Better for Equitable and Sustainable World’. In her remarks, the Executive Director, PIBCID, Halima Sadiq, admonished youths in the state to show love and shun violence. xRather, emphasis should be on successes recorded by security operatives in tackling the security challenge, he added. He lamented that the amount of coverage given to the activities of bandits and related criminal groups was giving impetus to insecurity.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2021 04:15 UTC