Security forces takes over Tawari community after Friday attack.

The security agencies in Kogi State have taken over Tawari community in Kogi local government council of Kogi State after a deadly attacked earlier hour of Friday.
When our reporter visited the community on Saturday security men have been drafted to the community by the state government to avoid further attack by the Fulani herdsmen.
The administrator of the local government council, Barr. Muhammed Tanko while speaking with our Correspondent said the situation has been brought under normal control.
He noted that the presence of the security agencies brought hope to the people of the community as those who ran away during the attack have started returning home.
He commended the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for his rapid respond during the attack stressing that those who sustained injury are responding to medical treatment at Federal Medical Center and Specialist Hospital Lokoja respectively.
Some of the community members who spoke said the attack was unfortunate.
According to him some few days back before to the attack they saw some of the Fulani people living in the community moving out from the town with their family.
He added that when they confronted them why are they living they said it was a normal thing for them to move from one place to another but surprisingly some day later they came at night and killed their people.
One Mallam Mohammed Musa who also spoke with Sunday Tribune said the community lost their believed ones during the attack.
He stressed that during the attack, the Fulani herdsmen men where killing people like animal, and they were also insulting while killing.
“Those people are heartless. They killed as if they are killing chicken. No human feelings, they attack from various angle, you can’t escape they are every where,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Kogi State Police Command Public Relation officer, DSP William Ayah said the situation is presently calm.
Speaking on phone on Saturday he stated that the Commissioner of Police CP Ede Ayuba visited the community where he met with the traditional rulers, Pastor of the Church that was burnt down by the Fulani herdsmen, he also visited the School that was also razed down and held meeting with the community.
He noted that special forces, fully armed policemen, State Security Service and other security agencies have been deployed to the community.
Also the Special Adviser on Security to Governor Yahaya Bello, Mr. Omodara visited the trouble area with more security to keep vigil for possible danger till normalcy is returned.
Meanwhile the Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello had directed the Kogi State Emergency Management Agency ( SEMA) to talk stalk of what wad destroyed during the attack.
The Chief Press Secreatry to the governor, Muhammed Onogu made this known to Tribune online on Saturday while speaking on the government efforts so far.
According to him, Bello has also directed SEMA to start destributing relieved materials to the affect people and also directed the Administrator of the local government council, Bar. Muhammed Tanko to commenced the building of th Police post that was razed down by the gunmen.
He also called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to the assist of the state government so that those affect can be resettle immediately.
However the deputy governor of the state, Chief Edward Onoja also visited the community on Saturday
He was received by the administrator of Kogi local government council, Barr. Muhammed Tanko
Chief David Edward Onoja was in the area to condole the people of Tawari community over the early morning Friday attacked where over 20 persons were reportedly killed by unknown Gunmen.
He said the state government will do everything possible to arrest those behind the killings adding that the state government will see what they can do to bring life back to the community.
He assured the community that the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) will supply relief materials to the community as directed by the governor as he also called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to their assistant.
He called on the security agencies to be vigilant and ensure that those behind the attack are brought to book.
However, the Kogi State Government has warned that “stern measures” will be taken to “neutralize those behind the attack on defenseless citizens of the state”, saying government is working hard to unlock “strong suspicions of external sponsorship of terror against the people of the state by people who wants to swim into 2023 in the blood of Nigerians”.
Speaking with newsmen in Lokoja, Saturday, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Communication Strategy, Evangelist Kingsley Fanwo said the Tawari Attack has further exposed the fact that some powerful individuals in the country are “striving to play politics with blood by discrediting the much credited security Architecture in Kogi State”, assuring the people that those behind the attack will be “apprehended and made to face the music”.
“There are certain individuals who thought we did not know the roles they played in the build up and even during the November 16 Governorship election in the State when they worked against the party because their second eye was already on the 2023 Presidential election.
“The Governor of Kogi State was recently re-elected to pilot the affairs of the State, the mandate which reaffirmed the confidence of the people in the Governor. One of the biggest positives that worked in the Governor’s favour was his success at securing the state.
“Governor Yahaya Bello is committed to serving the people in justification of the overwhelming endorsement by the electorate. His focus is Kogi State and the well-being of the people. Those who don’t know what will happen in January 2020 are already looking at 2023.
“We call on the security agencies to dig deeper than normal to unravel the masterminds of the Tawari attack and their sponsors. The Government of Kogi State will do everything constitutional to
protect her citizens. Our people should keep working with security agencies by giving information timely to prevent crimes.
“On the part of Government, efforts will be reset and refocused towards maintaining peace and order in the State”.
Fanwo also reassured the people of Tawari and its environs that Government is “staunchly in solidarity with them to keep them consoled and safe from further attack”, saying efforts are in top gear to step up “the tempo of surveillance and patrol across the State”.
He said, “there is a need to step up surveillance across the State and the Security Committee will soon be meeting to open up more conversations in that regard. We are also looking at injecting more technology into our security architecture to combat the new strategies of the enemies of Kogi State”.
He thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and the security Chiefs for their reaction to the “unfortunate incident sparked by unseen hands who do not want peace in Kogi State”, saying the Government and the people of the State will continue to work together to defeat criminals and their sponsors.