File: Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo.
The Edo State Commissioner for Public Safety and Security, Festus Ebea, has alleged that some residents are exploiting the country’s security challenges to bring criminal elements from outside the state for kidnapping and other violent crimes.
The commissioner disclosed this on Wednesday in Benin during the monthly briefing organised by the Ministry of Information and Strategy.
He alleged that some individuals in the state harboured herdsmen under the guise of assisting them in cattle rearing, but later used them for kidnapping operations.
He said, “From our security lenses, we have found out that some of our youths now keep herdsmen and the terrorists in their houses and point out to them where there is kidnapping business to do.”
