Banditry: Kaduna Safer After Military Bombardment – El-Rufai
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai says there have been positive changes in the security situation of the state over the past six weeks.
He said the deployment of Special Forces by the military is reducing the level of attacks in the state.
According to him, if the methods currently being used had been put in place a few years ago, the security situation would have been better in the state.
The governor spoke on Thursday while featuring on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme monitored in Kaduna as part of activities lined up for the ongoing KADInvests.
Hundreds of people have been killed by terrorists and bandits while many have been displaced in the last few years as part of the campaign of calumny ravaging the larger part of the North West.
El-Rufai had for long been vocal about the alleged failure of security agencies to tackle terrorists and other criminals.
He had called for a complete aerial bombardment of their enclaves saying that was the only way to stem their excesses.
According to him yesterday, all that the state government had requested the security agencies to do in the last 2 to 3 years were now happening in the state.
He stated: “The latest tactic deployed by the military is reducing the level of attacks in the state and Kaduna will be safer if the methods currently being used have been put in a few years ago.
“I’m happy to say in the last six weeks, there has been a change because the military has now deployed Special Forces here,” he said.
“And they have taken the bandits out. The Air Force is bombing them. All the things that we asked for two to three years ago are now happening.
