Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, says there have been positive changes in the security situation of the state over the past six weeks.
The governor, who stated this on Thursday, while featuring on a television programme, as part of activities lined up for the business summit: ‘KADInvests‘, said the deployment of Special Forces by the military is reducing the level of attacks in the state. According to him, if the methods currently being used had been put in place a few years ago, the security situation would have been better in the State.
Recall that hundreds of people have been killed by terrorists and bandits while many have been displaced in the last few years as part of the campaign of calumny ravaging the larger part of the North-West region.
The governor said all that the State government had requested the security agencies to do in the last two to three years were now happening in the State, adding that the Armed Forces had taken the bandits out of the State.
Speaking further, el-Rufa’i said that local security outfits such as the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed: Amotekun, as well as vigilantes in other States cannot solve the stated security problems.
According to him, local security outfits do not have the necessary firearms to fight bandits. He specifically described the plan by the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to arm the State’s security outfit, Amotekun, as a simplistic approach to combating bandits.
