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Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has made an appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria to escalate security operations across the seven frontline states in the North-West.
El-Rufai wants the FGN to also make sure that security is improved in Niger State within the coming weeks, especially the days leading to the May 29th handover date.
He added that the state governments alone were unable to handle the problem of security within their territory.
El-Rufai made this appeal after receiving the report which showed that no fewer than 214 persons were killed because of attacks by terrorists, communal clashes and reprisals across Kaduna state from January to March 2023.
The commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna, Samuel Aruwan disclosed this in the first quarter 2023 security report he presented to the state Security Council.
Aruwan in his report gave a detailed explanation that 196 males, 14 females and four minors were killed while 746 citizens were kidnapped during the period under review.
He also said that Kaduna Central Senatorial District remains top on the list with 115 deaths, a sad development which led to El-Rufai making an appeal to the FGN to help in improving security as well as securing the lives and properties of residents of the state.
“We appeal for an escalation of security operations over the next 39 days remaining to the end of the tenure of this administration and beyond so that the change of baton at the federal level does not result in a dangerous law that criminal outlaws can exploit,” El-Rufai said.
“There is every reason to intensify and sustain simultaneous ground and air kinetic actions across the seven frontline states of the North-West region and Niger states.”
