President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday tasked the Northern Governors to work in synergy with the security agency to end banditry in the region.
The president said while declaring open a meeting of the 19 Northern Governors and chairmen of the region’s Traditional Council of Chiefs and Emirs in Kaduna.
The Northern part of the country has been the epic-centre of Boko Haram insurgency and in recent times banditry.
I n attendance at the Kaduna meeting were representatives of the region at the National Assembly, the Director General of the DSS, IG of Police, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminences, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar as well asr epresentatives of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
Buhrai also stressed the need for the governors to compare notes and peer-review one another to exchange ideas and adopt best practices for the good of the people they govern.
Represented by the Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the President said criminal elements should be dealt with accordingly without resulting to ethnic profiling.
He said his administration would confront the various dimensions of security challenges and continue to emancipate Nigerians from poverty and economic deprivation.
Buhari said he had since tasked the new Service Chiefs to devise new strategies that will end the ugly security situation where the lives of Nigerians continue to be threatened by hoodlums and criminals.
