Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said the synergy between security agencies and the state government has yielded positive results in the fight against insecurity.
Specifically, the governor pointed out that the synergy led to killing of hundreds of bandits and destruction of their camps.
El-Rufai stated this while addressing the First Quarter Security Meeting of North West State Security Directors (SDS) of Department of State Services (DSS), at the Kaduna State Command, yesterday.
Represented by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, the governor called for similar cooperation between the governments of the other North West states and security agencies to bring banditry and terrorism to their knees.
He said: “Many Northern states are confronting a unique set of security challenges. Criminal activities by bandits have threatened both rural and urban communities. Bandits have openly tried to crush the rural economy by attacking farmers in their fields and homes.”
In many states, these criminals continue to threaten some highways.
“Here in Kaduna, especially over the last 18 months, we welcomed the intensification of ground and air action against the bandits, and we are most grateful to the security agencies for these operations and the successes recorded.”
Earlier in his remarks, the host, Director of Security in Kaduna State, Abdul Enenche, said the quarterly conference, which is an initiative of the DG DSS, was conceived based on the realisation that threats in the country were not limited to one state.
He added: “The three-day conference is meant to interrogate and review the state of security in the North West, in the first quarter, find gaps and forge ahead for the next quarter. But, it is not a job of a single security agency. Collaboration has worked so much for us in Kadun.”
