Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has reemphasized his administration’s support towards strengthening the state’s security architecture.
Governor Sani Bello stated this when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir of Kontagora, Alhaji Saidu Namaska (Mai Sudan of Kontagora) at his palace.
The Governor, who was deeply touched, expressed displeasure over the way banditry and kidnapping activities are going on in the state, noting that while efforts are ongoing in tackling their activities in Munyan and Shiroro Local Government Areas, they decided to move into the hinterland of zone C to perpetrate their evil acts.
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He maintained that the rate at which banditry activity is thriving calls for every Nigerian to reflect, even as the government continues to ensure that it supports the Vigilante not minding the state’s lean resources which are solely diverted to attend to security issues now.
“The situation on ground at the moment calls for every Nigerian to reflect, think and wake up to do the needful. We shouldn’t politicise matters, and particularly security matters.”
He said armed bandits do not differentiate or carry out their nefarious activities along with party and ethnoreligious divide, hence the need for collective efforts in the fight against banditry.
Governor Sani Bello employed everyone to stand up to their responsibility in whatever capacity they are serving to bring the evil act of banditry to an end.
The late Sardauna Bashir and two others met their untimely death in the hands of bandits at his father’s farm in Kontagora.
Meanwhile, a joint operation by the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police in Kontagora Local Government of Niger eliminated at least 7 bandits involved in the murder of Prince Bashir Namaska.
Reports gathered that the troops chased the bandits to a thick forest before they shot and neutralized some of them with A few escaped with gunshot injuries.
One of the injured captured by operatives who later died could neither speak Hausa nor English, but Fulfulde, a foreign dialect.
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