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The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has raised the alarm over the possibility of bandits taking advantage of the transition period to launch bloody attacks in the country.
El-Rufai advised that security operations against bandits should be increased in the remaining days of the current administration and beyond.
El-Rufai made this known during the presentation of a security report by the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House in Kaduna, the state capital.
Reports indicate that 1,266 and 4,973 people were killed and kidnapped respectively in 15 months, as revealed in the reviewed 2022 annual and first quarter 2023 security reports. The tenure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and 17 governors will come to an end in less than 40 days.
The governor called for sustained simultaneous ground and air kinetic actions across the seven frontline states of the North-West zone and Niger, which have contiguous forest ranges and are most heavily impacted by the security challenge, to prevent a dangerous lull during the transition period at the federal level.
