‘’THE menace of insecurity plaguing a large portion of the North can be put to an end only by implementing state policing,’’ those are the words of Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani 0n Sunday.
”In the last six months or thereabout, I have been insisting that we can only address the issue of insecurity if we establish state policing,” Governor Sani said hours after bandits stormed the Gindin Dutse Makyali village of Kufana district in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
”I am happy that some few weeks ago some governors joined me in agitating for state police and it was a lone voice,” the Kaduna State Governor Sani said in a one-on-one chat on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
”Some governors have also done a lot in the last few months by establishing or empowering the vigilance services.”
He however, said that normalcy had returned to the affected community and efforts were underway to rescue those abducted by the bandits.
Sani also noted that the measures employed by his comrades are ”temporary measures” at best.
”This can not and can never address the state of insecurity until we agree to collectively agree to establish state police immediately,” he added.
On local police network controlled by traditional rulers to aid in the fight against banditry, the governor insisted that these forms of security outfits
would be best suited to ”intelligence gathering and sharing all aimed at supporting other security agencies.”
”If you have vigilante service or vigilante groups or you have community policing, where is the law that allows them to carry AK-47,”
The Governor noted that the law hinders these groups from being well-equipped.