THE Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday said most kidnappings in Delta State were done by Hausa/Fulani settlers in the state in collaboration with some natives, Vanguard reports.
Reacting to the claim, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Zanna Ibrahim, fumed and said he would not want to bandy words with Governor Okowa adding that facts before him are to the contrary.
Governor Okowa, speaking through his Special Adviser on Rural Development and Peace-building, Chief Edwin Uzor, at a town hall meeting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, said his administration has done enough to ensure the incessant clashes between herdsmen and Deltans were reduced to the barest minimum.
“There would have been much more killings but for our consultations. Most of the kidnappings in the state are perpetrated by the Hausa/Fulani in connivance with some of our people.”, Governor Okowa was quoted as saying.
But the Police Commissioner told Vanguard: “Well, he (governor) may have his own statistics with due respect, but you see my own take in this matter is that crime has no nationality. It does not have boundaries or tribe, religion or whatever you are talking about.
“Yes, a lot of these herdsmen and people of Hausa extraction have been found to be involved in heinous crimes.
I have records to show that almost everybody that you know is involved in this whole thing. Whether it is an indigene or a non-indigene, they are all involved in this thing.
“I have close to about 112 kidnappers in my custody as at today and the summary of the statistics shows otherwise.
For Delta State, we have 80; Anambra 9, Adamawa 8, Taraba 3, Niger 3, Imo 2, Edo 1, Bayelsa 1, Rivers 1, Akwa Ibom 1, Enugu 1, Sokoto 2, Plateau 1 and Kaduna 1. So it does not have boundaries, it depends on what he is furnished with.
“So I would not want to contradict him as he obviously has his reasons for saying that. But the statistics I have is what I am talking about,” he said.
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