He said that politicians employ the services of thugs and hooligans warning, however, that the state government would deal with anybody who patronised thugs or encouraged any act of violence with the approach of the 2015 general elections in the country.
Wada spoke yesterday, during the third anniversary of the Kogi State House of Assembly, in Lokoja.
The governor said that the state government will no longer tolerate thuggery, hooliganism and indiscipline and asked politicians in the state not to patronise thugs or encourage any act of violence as the government would deal decisively with offenders.
According to Wada, acts of thuggery and hooliganism as encouraged by the political class had contributed greatly to the insecurity being witnessed in the country now.
"The era of thuggery and acts inimical to peace and security of lives and property of the people of the state have gone for good. The concern of every politician now is to see to the development of the state.
"I urge the political players in the state not to engage youths as thugs for whatever purpose and should not by any means patronise thuggery.
"Any one caught in the act of thuggery would not be spared, no matter how highly placed in the society," Wada said, urging politicians to use their body language to discourage hooliganism that used to characterise the state's political landscape in the past.
The governor also called on the people of the state to be security conscious, pointing out that security was everybody's business hence it should not be left in the hands of security agencies or government alone
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