Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has stressed the need for state policing amid the rising spate of insecurity in the Northern part of the country.
Governor Sani stated this when he was featured as a guest on Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics.
He insisted that insecurity can only be addressed with the establishment of state police.
While he commended some Northern state governors for also backing the establishment of the state police, Sani noted that vigilante services are temporary measures that are best suited for intelligence gathering and sharing.
The governor’s comments came a few hours after bandits in the early hours of Sunday invaded Gindin Duste Makyali of the Kufana District, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing at least twelve people during the attack.
Mallam Uba Sani said that he had been pushing for the establishment of state police as it is the only way to address the issue of insecurity.
He expressed happiness that some state governors have also joined him in agitating for state police and it was a lone voice.
The Kaduna state governor noted that normalcy had returned to the affected community and efforts were underway to rescue those abducted by the bandits, adding that the measures employed by his comrades cannot and can never address the state of insecurity until they collectively agree to establish state police immediately.