By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja
KOGI State Police Command has called on organisers of the planned rally at Okene to cancel the event in the interest of the prevailing peace in Kogi State, against backdrop of negative intelligence reports.
The call was contained in a statement from the Commissioner of Police, Kogi Command, CP Miller Gajere Dantawaye, signed by SP William Ovye Aya,
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lokoja.
According to CP Dantawaye, the call for cancellation followed the intelligence report on security threats in Kogi State and the subsequent ban on all forms of rallies and processions by the State Government.
The CP held the Command and the State Government were in receipt of intelligence reports revealing that some hoodlums plan to hijack the process and cause disturbance of peace in the State.
“In view of the security threat received on the planned rally, the Kogi State Police Command is therefore advising the organisers to cancel the event so as to avoid any breakdown of law and order in the State”, he said.
Dantawaye said that the Command cannot afford to allow anybody to jeopardize the existing peace in the State.
The Police, he added, would therefore, not hesitate to apply the full wrath of the Law on any one who may want to disturb the existing peace and order.
Our Correspondent however reports that the ban on rallies and call for cancellation of planned rally might not be unconnected with the plan by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan to hold Sallah rally in the Central Senatorial District of Kogi State.
The embattled Senator has maintained, in spite the Monday proclamation by the state government banning political gathering or rallies, continued with her “homecoming” plans to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr with her constituents. (Ends)