Will community policing quell fresh attacks, killings in Kogi?

A surge in killings and kidnappings in Kogi State might have welcomed Governor Usman Ododo to power. But his immediate rollout of a strategy that empowers local hunters and vigilante groups to push back on aggressors is reminiscent of the justification of ‘unpopular’ state police, IBRAHIM OBANSA reports.

Kogi State governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, recently visited President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa, Abuja, about the spate of insecurity in his state and solicited support from the president to curb the trend.