The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has
assured Nigerians that security forces are winning the war on banditry in the
country.
He made this assertion in an interview with newsmen at the
Kwara State Police Headquarters in Ilorin, during his working visit to the
state.
Baba said the police is not fighting the war alone, but in
collaboration with all other security agencies including the military leading
the war and we are winning.
He disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved
the recruitment of 10,000 additional police personnel every year for the next
six years.
He said although the year 2020 recruitment process could not
be implemented, the 2020/2021 recruitment exercise would be carried out by the
force
The IGP said improved pension schemes and emoluments were
underway for the personnel as part of efforts to motivate them saying ” there
is light at the end of the tunnel.”
He said working tools and the welfare of the personnel would
also be provided and enhanced to entice them to be more dedicated and committed
to the job.
In his own speech, the state Police Commissioner, Amienbo
Tuesday Assayomo, requested more vehicles, communication and tracking gadgets
and manpower among others.
” Kwara State is called the state of Harmony, but with her
fair share of security challenges, like kidnapping, herders-farmers clashes,
cultism, boundary disputes, communal clashes, migration of people from the
crisis-ridden states to Kwara, it has become crime-prone,” he stated.
Assayomo said of the three senatorial districts in the
state, Kwara North Senatorial district, which has an international border with
the Republic of Benin, in Baruten Local Government Area, makes the area more
vulnerable to cross-boundary crimes like smuggling and human trafficking.
He said Kaiama Local Government Area of the state, which has
an ungovernable forest reserve that stretches to Borgu Local Government Area of
Niger State, makes the place a bandit rendezvous.
The police commissioner decried ” the shortage of manpower
which has affected the policing capacity of the command in the state,
especially now that bandits are being bombarded and chased away from Zamfara
and Katsina States.”
He said, ” the concern of Kwarans, is that they do not enter
Kwara state through the ungoverned forest reserve in the northern part of the
state.”
Assayomo requested the IGP, “to graciously order the return
of mobile policemen currently on special duty in five states, outside Kwara to
help strengthen the security of the state.”
The Commissioner, thanked the IGP, for his support and
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, for his love for the state police command,
which has resulted in his robust logistics and moral support for the command.
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