Gov. Alhaji-Abdulfatah-Ahmed of Kwara state. Credit: Premium Times
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed Kwara State has denied reviews linking him and Senate President Bukola Saraki with suspected cultists arrested in Ilorin, the state capital.
The Senate President had accused the management of Nigeria Police of planning to implicate him.
In an assertion by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr Muyideen Akorede, the Kwara governor stated neither him nor Saraki nor any of their aides have hyperlinks with the suspected cultists or their alleged actions.
He additionally denied any information of or any intention to hurt any particular person because the political management within the state has by no means used violence as a political device.
The assertion referred most people to the parade of the suspects by the state commissioner of police, Mr. Aminu Pai Saleh on Thursday, May 10, 2018 in Ilorin, throughout which he introduced that the suspects had been arrested for alleged homicide and membership of cult teams however made no point out of any confessional assertion linking their actions to any sponsors.
Ahmed stated: “The rising drawback of cultism and cult-related criminalities shaped the idea of the brand new Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Saleh to deal with ending the menace on his resumption final month.
“The state government sees cultism as a serious security issue requiring urgent attention and has accordingly amended the State Cultism Law to prescribe stiffer penalties for convicts and those who aid and abet them, besides providing operational support to all security agencies in the state in their fight against all forms of criminalities, including cultism.”
Ahmed warned that cultism is a severe safety problem which ought to neither be trivialised and became a political device nor be handled with levity.