KIDNAPPING OCCURS DAILY IN KOGI, BANDITS TOOK 28 RESIDENTS ON MONDAY — SUNDAY KARIMI.(PHOTO).

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 Senator Sunday Karimi has raised concerns over the growing incidence of kidnapping and banditry in Kogi State, describing abductions as a daily occurrence in the state. Karimi made the remarks on Wednesday during plenary while contributing to a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari on the recent abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Ogbomoso. The lawmaker said kidnapping and banditry have become major security challenges threatening the stability of the country, stressing that responsibility for addressing the menace should not rest solely on the Federal Government. According to him, bandits invaded Ayedun Bunu, a community in Kogi West Senatorial District, in the early hours of Monday and abducted 28 residents. He noted that such incidents have become frequent in Kogi State, adding that communities continue to face security threats from criminal elements. Karimi called on lawmakers to accelerate legislative action on proposals for the est...

FORMER MALI COUP LEADER AMADOU,STARTS HUNGER STRIKE.

Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo attends a ceremony as former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traore (unseen) is sworn in as Mali's interim president in the captial Bamako, April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Malin Palm                          General Amadou Sanogo,former Mali coup leader starts hunger strike over his conditions while on detention.Two years ago he allowed Islamist to seize it's desert north.He was arrested and chaged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers,loyal to president Amadou Toumani Toure.Authorities have discovered 30 bodies,some of them wearing military uniforms,in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati,just outside the capital Bamako.He is protesting over his transfer to Lakeside town of selingue prison,150km{90miles} south of Bamako.His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers,deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.''He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment''.The current President,Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,elected last August,is under pressure to restore the state's authority over the army and to root out pockets of remaining Islamist rebels in the north.A French led military intervention last year helped break the Islamist grip over the desert region.

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