A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Prof Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia, has presented a practical framework that will immediately secure, protect lives and restore permanent stability and peace in Kwara State troubled communities especially those ravaged by banditry.

The United Kingdom-based lecturer, at the weekend, christened the framework as: the Kwara Rural Security and Recovery Compact.

He told newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State that the compact rests on six pillars that could secure the state’s Movement Corridors.

According to him, bandits do not appear from nowhere, “they move through predictable routes like: forest edges, river crossings, feeder roads and border belts.

“He urged the state government to identify the corridors and dominate them, “not temporarily, but continuously,” he added.

Ajia disclosed that: “we will establish forward security presence in vulnerable entry points across Kaiama, Baruten, Edu, Patigi, Ifelodun, and exposed parts of Kwara South.

“Security must meet criminals before they reach our villages, and not after,” he suggested.

On the second pillar on whose the suggested Compact rests, Ajia urged that the rural communities be defended through Cluster Defense, noting that: “ne of the greatest vulnerabilities facing our villages today is isolation.

“Communities are scattered, support is far away, and response time is slow. “We must reorganise vulnerable settlements into protected security clusters.

“Each cluster will have a rapid response point, a communications hub, emergency medical support and evacuation coordination capacity.

“Every cluster will know exactly who to call; every cluster will know exactly what to do; every cluster will know the government is present. Fear thrives where the state is absent. Government must restore presence,” he enjoined.

He also sought the reformation of Forest and Frontier Protection Units, saying: “our forests cannot remain ungoverned spaces and our forest guards must never again be placed in danger without structure, training, or protection.

“We must professionalise forest protection units by training them, equip them, integrate them properly with formal security agencies and ensure they serve as early-warning systems—not sacrificial deployments,” he said.

According to Ajia, kidnapping business is no longer random crime, “it is an organised business model largely depending on: informants, suppliers, transport, helpers, negotiators, cash channels and safe houses

“We myst dismantle this network structure not incident by incident but system by system.

Consequently, he called for a dedicated Kidnap Disruption Coordination Cell that will track patterns across cases and shut down the support systems that allow kidnapping to survive, “because criminals should never feel that Kwara State is a safe operating environment.”

He also called for the security of farming and Protect Rural Livelihoods, “when farmers abandon their land, insecurity spreads; when markets close, criminal influence grows; when villages empty, fear replaces governance.

“We must launch a Secure Farming Initiative that guarantees protected access to farms during planting and harvest periods; we must support escorted movement where necessary as well as reopen feeder roads,” he suggested.