IMPORTED HOODLUMS BURN DOWN KOGI ASSEMBLY

....attempts to set Info Commissioner's house on fire foiled

The controvery over the ownership of the Obajana Cement Company took a sad twicontroversyearly hours on Monday, as arsonists believed to be agents of the Dangote Group stormed the State House of Assembly Complex and set it on fire. 

The arsonists were suspected to have been sent to burn the Complex in an attempt to possibly destroy evidence relating to the ownership tussle between the Kogi State Government and the Dangote Group over the Obajana Cement Company. 

The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, who had released a statement on Sunday, asking Dangote to come clean on the issue, expressed sadness over the recent turn of event, wondering how a business concern would go this low to events history. 

He called on security agencies to investigate, pointing out that there was enough credible intelligence to show that the target of the arsonists was to destroy evidence relating to ongoing investigations on the Kogi-Dangote face-off over the ownership of Obajana Cement Company. 

In a related development, security agents attached to the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, foiled an attempt to attack his home, an incident that had never happened before, according to him. 

The hoodlums, however, escaped with gunshot wounds. 

When contacted, Fanwo accused Alhaji Aliko Dangote of "playing dirty and dangerous" over the Obajana saga, saying, "The resolve of the State Government to defend the people's rights cannot be broken." 

He said, "The State House of Assembly was set on fire this morning. Remember we exposed plans to attack the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly with fake soldiers yesterday. 

"Having discovered that we exposed their satanic plans against the Speaker, they changed tactics to go and burn down the Kogi State House of Assembly. This is an attack on

Salami Farouk