National President of Ogga Progressive Union (OPU)
Mr Bamidele Olure, the has requested the deployment of policemen and other security personnel to their community to ensure their safety.
He pleaded with people in the authorities on Saturday when he was addressing the journalists at the sideline of the funeral service for the late Ologga of Ogga, Oba Daniel Adeyeye Kumolu, at 1st ECWA Church Ogga, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi.
He said the community has tried to provide self police post, but subsequently abandoned with the excuse of less mam power.
“We do not pray for insurgency attacks, but what if there is one, who will rise to the occasion?
“We therefore need police and security defence officers to be on ground in the community; we have the necessary facilities on ground already.
“The authorities concerned should please post police and security defence officers to our community,” he pleaded.
He added that there was no doubt that there was insecurity all over the world and security men were deployed to handle it, but security personnel were not available in Ogga.
He decried the dearth of infrastructural facilities and the abandonment of the community by all tiers of government as there were no good roads, adding that the hospital built by the community had been abandoned due to lack of necessary facilities.
“The hospital has no equipment, no drugs and no health officers in spite that the state government has taken over the hospital.
“It is pathetic that Ogga people where massive votes come from during elections, cannot access health facilities within the community except at the local government headquarters which is far off,” he said.
Olure commended the late monarch lebel him as a honest leader and father who would be greatly missed by Ogga people, saying many achievement were recorded during his reign through communal efforts.
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