Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has appealed for the recruitment of 774,000 youths into security agencies to help in restoring peace in the country.
He made the remarks while receiving the third quarterly security report at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, on Wednesday.
According to him, he called for a consensus between the Federal Government and the 36 states on an emergency programme of recruitment into the security agencies.
“Government can change the game significantly by hiring 1,000 willing youths from each of the 774 LGAs in the country into the security agencies.
“This will be a surge in numbers that is unprecedented since the civil war. An influx of 774,000 new boots on the ground will be a significant blow against criminals and an employment boost,” El-Rufai said.
On the security reports, El-Rufai lamented that the security reports are a sobering report, reflecting the real agony of our citizens and communities, their pains and losses, and the fears and anxiety that have created considerable distress.
He noted also that the report puts the statistics in context, analyses the pattern of violence and outlines what the Kaduna State Government and the security agencies are doing to contain the situation and relieve the situation in our communities.
“These figures indicate the continuing severity of the security situation. In our view, this compels an obligation to transparency on the part of the managers of security.
“It acknowledges the pain of our people, reflects precise figures on the nature and pattern of security incidents and provides the public factual information on this unprecedented challenge,” he added.
According to him, “the previous annual and quarterly security reports have placed the Kaduna Central Senatorial District as the most impacted by these incidents.
“That was the consistent pattern in the Security Incidents Reports for 2020, the first quarter of 2021 and the second quarter of 2021.”
However, the report for the third quarter of 2021 indicates that the Kaduna South Senatorial District had the highest casualties in the period. This reflects the toxic mix of banditry and the continuing violent clashes between communities in Zangon-Kataf, Kaura and Kauru LGAs. The locus of these violent incidents is Zangon-Kataf LGA where the peace process, championed so impressively since last year by His Highness the Agwatyap, is being imperilled by sundry acts of lawlessness.
He further said: “I call on all the communities in Zangon Kataf LGA to recommit to peace, to work together to promote harmony, uphold the rule of law and unite against the criminals that threaten all of them.
“While receiving the second quarter report in July 2021, I had noted that it is a matter of profound regret for me that our considerable investments in security are yet to manifest in the defeat or at least the considerable degradation of the criminals that menace our people.
“We have consistently supported the federal security agencies deployed to our state with logistics and equipment. Apart from these recurrent expenses, the Kaduna State Government has undertaken capital expenditure to provide facilities that can multiply the capacity of security agencies to deter crime and conduct effective investigations of those that do occur.
“We created the Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs to provide a specialised institution to coordinate these investments and our liaison with the federal security agencies.
“I am happy to report that since I made those comments, the military and other security agencies have commenced operations against the bandits.”
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