Claim:

“Today, our state is arguably the safest in the entire country, we are rated the second most peaceful and our crime rate is second lowest,” Yahya Bello, Kogi State Governor, August 27, 2021.

Conclusion:

No! Kogi is not the safest state in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria security watch and Nigeria Security Tracker. The rankings referenced by the Kogi State Governor are not recent statistics. The second peaceful state rating was a 2018 report, and the crime rate report was a statistics contained in a 2017 report.

Full report:

While celebrating the 30th anniversary of the creation of Kogi State, governor Yahya Bello said his administration took the peace and security of the state as utmost priority since his first day in office and has made the state an outstanding one.

In his words,”Today, our state is arguably the safest in the entire country, we are rated the second most peaceful and our crime rate is second lowest.”

This is not the first time Yahaya Bello and other officials of the state government have previously made this statement. He made the same statement in September 2018 while celebrating the international peace day and his special adviser also made a similar statement in May 2021 at an annual religious dinner event.

Verification:

The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published its last crime report in 2016 where it ranked Kogi as the penultimate state with least crime. In further research, Ripples Nigeria gathered from a Statista report published February 25, 2021 with the title; Number of crimes in Nigeria 2017, by state, that Kogi was the second least crime state with 282 crime reports and Kebbi was the least crime having 205.  With no substantial and reliable data from recent years, Kogi cannot be said to be the second state with the least crime rate in Nigeria.

https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/fact-check-is-kogi-the-safest-state-with-second-lowest-crime-rate-in-nigeria/

Wether he's right or not they should brace themselves they are about to invaded by terrorists

Telling barefaced lies just because you want to become audio President

Lol Lowest in Covid rate....

Abi people wey dey use Covid dey play politics na crime dem dey commit na....

Yeye bello is more political than real life.He plays politics like the northern Fulani herdsmen.