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By El-Yakub Dabai, Birnin Kebbi
Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State has urged the Federal Government to evolve a new strategy of fighting insurance, banditry and the menace of the Lakurawas as well as kidnapping as the present defence tactics had failed Nigerians.
The Governor made the call on Monday at the Government House in Birnin Kebbi while receiving the Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Abbas Tajudden, who led a delegation of Federal Lawmakers on a sympathy visit over the abduction of Maga School girls.
”Mr. Speaker, what happened at Maga made us to ask questions, If I do not speak on behalf of our people, who will speak? After receiving intelligence report, my administration provided what the security demanded and the military were deployed to the school.. By 3am they withdrew, 45 minutes later, 3.45am, the bandits’ struck, invaded the school and abducted 25 girls.” The State Chief Executive explained.
He further said: “I want to plead with the House of Representatives to wade into the matter and invite the military to find out the circumstances who gave the order for the soldiers to withdraw. The government had an Intel something would happen, we wanted to close the school but the military said no, they’ll deploy their men. Had we known, we would have closed the school to forestall the sad incident”.
Governor Idris lamented that the present system appeared not to be working and there was the necessity to change the pattern of combat operation, adding that:
”Look at the movement of bandits, they move in hundreds on motorcycles riding on the highway for several kilometres before entry into the forest, all these things have to be checked”.
Speaking earlier, Rt Hon. Abbas Tajuddeen said they were in Kebbi to comensorate with Government and people of the state, adding that the news of the students kidnap, came to them as a rude and utmost shock, knowing that Kebbi had been most stable state in the entire North until the kidnap incident.
He said: “This incident is a wake up call on all of us to continue to think how we can contain this big devil of insecurity bedeviling Kebbi and the nation.The House of Representatives is with you, our hearts are with you, we must find lasting solution to it, we sympathize with the girls in captivity, we pray they will not stay long before being released”.
Tajudden reveled that the House would sit, deliberate and identify key areas of the problem and evolve solution to the lingering issues of insecurity nationwide as we shall receive the US Ambassador and other Envoys from different countries during the sitting, stressing that: “We shall come up with a blueprint for use at national and sub-national levels for solution”.
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