KIDNAPPING OCCURS DAILY IN KOGI, BANDITS TOOK 28 RESIDENTS ON MONDAY — SUNDAY KARIMI.(PHOTO).
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...
According to sources,the news of the secret meeting was broken today by Tokunbo Korodo,the south west Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers {NUPENG}.He said he had the information that the Deport and Petroleum Products Marketing Associstion {DAPPMA} is meeting with the president elect on the subsidy issue.He said ''I think the outcome of that meeting may determine if DAPPMA will reopen the deports for loading or import more into the country.The prevailing fuel scarcity may worsen if depot owners shut their deports to tanker drivers,no tanker driver had loaded petroleum products as at 1:30pm on monday.What i was told was that the Independent deport owners may have shut their depots to tankers driver because of the over N200billion owed them by the Federal Government.The relocation of the tankers from highways and the inabiity to load fuel at the depots were responsible for the free flow of traffic in Apapa axis.The recent directives by the Lagos state Government for tanker drivers to relocate from the highways within 48 hours,had not yielded any result.Tanker drivers have vacated the highways but other heavy duty vehicles,especially container driver have taken over.The government cannot chase tanker drivers away for other heavy duty vehicles to occupy the space.Lagosians should know that tanker have not been the problem of gridlock in Lagos.We occupied the road because we are told to pick fuel only at Apapa''.He urged the government to settle importers for calm to return to the sector.One more picture below. 
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