By Oyibo Salihu
Lokoja
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, yesterday imposed an emergency 24-hour curfew on five local government areas of the state.
The five LGs; Adavi, Ajaokuta, Okene, Okehi and Ogori/Magongo, are all in the central senatorial axis of the state.
There was no specific reason for the development, but the action which was revealed through a statement issued by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mrs. Petra Onyegbule, leaned towards serious security alert.
The statement read in part: “This is a notice of a 24-hour curfew imposed on residents of the five local government areas of Central Senatorial District beginning from midnight (already commenced).
“This curfew will lasts for 24 hours and it is absolute. No movement whatsoever shall be allowed.
“All residents of Adavi, Ajaokuta, Okehi, Okene, Ogori/Magongo local government areas are advised to comply by this directive as anyone who runs foul would have themselves to blame.
“Government regrets every inconvenience this might cause and assures citizens and residents. This decision has been taken in the best interest of the state.”
Blueprint recalls that in the past one month, insecurity had been on the rise in the areas which culminated in the burning of police station, killing of security operatives as well as last week’s assassination of a labour leader, Abdulmumini Yakubu.
