By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin
The Kwara State Authorities has faulted former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, over his latest criticism of the state’s dealing with of safety issues, describing him as unqualified to talk on the topic.
Saraki had on the weekend, throughout the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP), accused the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration of incompetence and failure to guard lives and property amid rising circumstances of kidnapping and banditry within the state.
Reacting in an announcement on Monday, the governor’s Particular Adviser on Media, Hon. Bashir Adigun, stated Saraki lacked the ethical floor to talk on safety, alleging that his years of political dominance within the state have been characterised by concern, cult-related killings, and violent actions of political thugs.
Adigun stated Governor AbdulRazaq has demonstrated better dedication to securing the state, stressing that the current administration has persistently geared up safety companies with automobiles, devices, and logistics assist, whereas additionally empowering vigilantes, forest guards, and native hunters to defend communities.
“As a substitute of providing condolences to victims of legal assaults, Saraki has chosen to play low cost politics with human lives — a shameful show of insensitivity. Insecurity is a nationwide scourge, not peculiar to Kwara. Bandits fleeing army bombardments within the North West usually spill into North Central states like Kwara,” the assertion learn.
In line with Adigun, the administration has mixed safety measures with growth tasks, citing investments in faculties, hospitals, roads, and water infrastructure, in addition to youth empowerment packages, as a part of its holistic method to tackling insecurity.
He recalled that Saraki’s shut ally, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, had in 2022 admitted that overseas militias introduced into the nation forward of the 2015 elections worsened Nigeria’s safety challenges.
“Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq won’t ever play politics with the lives of Kwarans. He’ll proceed to face with the folks, work with safety companies, and put money into the way forward for our state. Saraki’s try and rewrite historical past and feign concern is nothing however failed propaganda,” Adigun concluded.
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