 Lawyers, leaders of civil society organizations, and professionals across all sectors of the economy have called on Kogi State indigents at home and in a diaspora to help security agencies make the state uninhabitable for criminals masquerading as politicians in the state, especially as the November 11th governorship election draws closer. They called on the people of Kogi State to resist those they described as criminal political merchants trying to blackmail security agencies in the interest of their unpopular ambitions. Representatives of more than 50 CSOs and scores of lawyers under the brand brought platform of lawyers and activists for good governance made this position known at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. A lawyer from Igala Mela, LGA Kogi State and Cocavina, lawyers and activists for good governance who address the press on behalf of others, one that some mischievous political figures in the state were working towards bringing back the dark days of instability by supporting criminal elements to cause chaos. Sponsors of this harmony, specializing in playing one ethnic group in Kogi State against the others in their wicked and evil agenda to make sure that crisis erupts in the states which they reckon could work in their favor to clinch political offices, especially as the state's governorship election is approaching. They have been engaging in criminal propaganda on social media and regular media to create mass disaffection against the incumbent government in the state. An average co-guide who understand the state's terrain very well would testify that Kogi State in the last seven years plus has witnessed the uprooting of violent criminals like kidnappers, terrorists, armed robbers and others from the state since the inception of the current administration in the state. But there are mischievous political figures in the state who wish to bring back these dark days of instability by supporting criminal elements to cause chaos in the states and thereafter quickly rush to the public to paint accusing fingers at security agencies or the state government. This is a failed bid to cover their poorly disguised criminal tracks, especially when security agencies go after their criminal prestige. These are the same political goons who move around the states to erect structures of ethnic acrimony and suspicion for political advantage. They don't mean well for the states and co-guides are enjoying to resist anyone or group desperately trying to find the embers of this unity and mutual acrimony in the states. They are atrocious characters with wicked and evil agenda to benefit from the crisis they are provoking. Notified about fresh news updates