From Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja
The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Sunday Karimi, has vowed to go spiritual if that will be the solution to the constant attacks and incessant killings of people of his constituency.
Karimi gave the assurances while condemning the gruesome attacks on Odo Ape community by unknown gunmen, assuring that this would be the last of such attacks on the area.
The senator condemned in strong terms the attacks saying “the killings of my people must stop.”
Sen. Karimi who was reacting to the recent murder of two innocent citizens of Odo Ape by criminals masquerading as herdsmen, whom he claimed were taking refuge in some forests of Kogi West, promised to do all that is physically and spiritually possible to get the criminals out of Kogi West forest.
He said he would stop at “everything that is needed security wise, even if it requires invoking the spirits of our forefathers,” to bring an end to attacks on his people.
Sen. Karimi assured that he was already interfacing with the relevant security authorities, working with the state and Federal governments, to ensure that the recent attack was the last on any community in the senatorial district.
Sen. Karimi appealed to the youths of the community not to take the laws into their hands, said the local, state and Federal government were resolved to intervene on the security situation in the area with measures that would make it the last on any community in Kogi West.