President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, had separate audiences with Governors Aminu Masari of Katsina, Abdulahi Sule of Nasarawa and Darius Ishaku of Taraba States over the troubling security challenges bedeviling Northern Nigeria.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, had on Monday night, met the president.
The four requested assistance to end insecurity rocking their various states.
Speaking to State House Correspondents in separate interviews after their meetings, Masari stressed the need for to collaboration to tackle security challenges in the North West.
He said if each state in the region has different policy, bandits and terrorists would always get away after committing their dastardly acts.
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‘I think what is most important for us to succeed in fighting these bandits is for all of us in the states, especially the North-western states, to take the pains and work together to make sure that we block all the loopholes
‘But if one state has a policy and another has a different one, certainly they (bandits) will always be moving from one state to another. Luckily enough, we are already working closely with states that border us, like Nasarawa and Niger, to bring the problem to a manageable and tolerable level,’ Masari, who led a delegation of elders to Abuja, submitted
While speaking on the recent killing of one of his commissioners, the Masari said it had nothing to do with banditry but a case of assassination.
He assured the family of the deceased and citizens of the state that security agents were working hard to unravel the murder.
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However, Masari said with the measures put in place by security agencies against banditry, there was an improvement.
‘We cannot say normalcy has returned but there is improvement. When we had a comparative analysis before the issuance of the security containment order, what we saw in three months when we compared was a drastic drop of over 100 percent in terms of the rate of kidnappings, killings and their associated crimes with banditry. So, the incident we had last week had nothing to do with banditry,’ he stressed.
On his part, Governor Sule revealed that he met the president to express his appreciation for the support being received by his state over security.
‘You must have heard that there were several joint operations of the special forces; the military, the police, together with vigilante, the Air Force and the Navy in the two local government areas bordering Abuja and as a result, the various operations have been very successful.
‘Recently, some of our schools were being targeted, we privately approached and actions were taken and then we thank almighty God that we’ve been able to dislodge those ones.’
On Boko Haram insurgents that had gathered in parts of the state, he said they had now been dispersed.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
