By Correspondent in Lokoja
As crime wave in the country adamant to abate,Joint Community Policing with government’s security agencies has been identified as the sure way of curbing the rising wave of kidnapping and other criminal activities in Nigeria.
The National President, Egume Ome Descendants Union, (EODU),Alhaji Mohamed Ibrahim Lawal, made the suggestion at the Annual General Meeting of the union at Community Comprehensive Secondary school, Egume in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi state during this Yuletide.
Alhaji Lawal noted with concern that the current kidnapping in the country had not only discouraged visit of major stakeholders to their country homes, to ascertain the level of Community developments, but had also affected human development economically.
He, however, commended the constituted Conflict Resolution Committee on Farmers / Fulani herdsmen for the restoration of confidence and peaceful coexistence among the Herdsmen and Farmers in Egume.
The national president, who attributed the inability of the union’s EXCO to implement the 2020 budget to the overwhelming security challenges, as excemplified by the Farmers/ Herdsmen crisis,stressed the need for the people to embrace peace.
“We can get it right if we embrace the right attitude, norms and skills in building the moral and social aspects of the Community,”he said.
Alhaji Lawal also lauded all branches of the union and stakeholders for the display of loyalty and contributions toward the recent enumeration carried out by the National Population Commission (NPC) and enjoined them to sustain the developmental zeal and determination to move Egume to enviable heights.
Contribution, the National Vice President of EODU, Comrade Sunday Maji, attributed the rising social vices among the youths in the community to laziness and “get rich quick syndrome.”
Maji, who called on parents to ensure “regular household checkmate and monitoring of the activities of their children”, warned that government would not hesitate to deal with anybody caught in the criminal webs, irrespective of his or her status in the society.
The Vice President, who frowned at the suspected criminals who were on-the-run but seeking for pardon from the union leaders, however, advised those concerned to channel their apology of good behaviour through appropriate law enforcement agencies.
He commended the spiritual and moral zeal of stakeholders toward the upliftment of the Community Comprehensive Secondary school, Egume educationally, assuring that
“we will assist any brilliant students who might be financially handicapped rather than to support criminality.”
