By Frank Momoh
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, directed security agencies to put an end to all the security challenges facing the nation.
He averred that government would no longer tolerate the deteriorating security challenges across the country.
The President who stated this today in Katsina, Katsina State affirmed government’s determination to ensuring the protection of lives and properties of Nigerians though represented by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, said that he was in the state to engage the state on ways to tackle the security challenges facing the State and its environs.
According to him, the wanton destruction of lives and properties in Katsina State and the entire country through banditry, kidnappings, armed robbery, rape, insurgency, and other forms of criminality can no longer be tolerated.
Aregbesola who was accompanied by the Heads of security agencies of internal security, reiterated the president’s resolve to ensuring internal security through strengthening the internal security architecture of the ministry.
The Ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Mr. Mohammed Manga, in a statement made available to SHARPEDGENews, said President Buhari, assured the people of Katsina State and the entire North-west zone of government’s determination to end the spate of insecurity and all criminalities plaguing the communities.
He charged the Batch ‘B’ of agro rangers undergoing training at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Katsina, to utilize the knowledge from the capacity building to tackle the challenges of hoodlums, extremists, kidnappers and other acts of criminalities that are terrorizing the people.
He directed the security agencies in charge of internal security to continue to collaborate with relevant sister government agencies through intelligence sharing, with the view to putting an end to the prevailing security challenges facing the country.
“The government reposes full confidence in your agency, to nip all these menace in the bud before it escalates”, he said.
In a remark, the Governor of Katsina State, Mr. Aminu Bello Masari, expressed confidence in the President Buhari’s determination to restore peace and security across the country.
Masari, acknowledged that with Aregbesola as Minister of Interior, the President Buhari’s administration will soon witness a tremendous improvement in internal security