Following spate of kidnapping ravaging parts of Kaduna state, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Sen. Lawal Adamu Usman, to convene an emergency security stakeholders summit.
In the last one month, Kaduna Central Senatorial zone has suffered a spate of four high profile abductions including the bandits’ attack on Gonin Gora in Chikun local government area where 16 people were kidnapped, a week laterm there was the kidnap of 287 school children and teachers in Kuriga in the same Chikun local government and the abduction of 61 people in Buda Hausa in Kajuru local government and another kidnap of 15 women and a man in Dogon-Noma in the same Kajuru local government last Saturday.
Sen. Usman, who made this known to journalists Sunday said the presidential directives came during his visit to the President at the Villa on Friday.
He added that the planned summit was aimed at addressing critical areas of insecurity ravaging the state, especially the frequent bandit operations in the state.
“The stakeholders meeting will also address modern ways of cracking criminal, intelligence gathering community policing, among others.
“The stakeholders would include security agencies, community leaders, traditional institutions, government, Civil Society Organisations and many others.”
He said President Tinubu expressed displeasure over the recurrent bandits’ operations in the state, especially the recent kidnapping of 287 students in Chikun local government area and other places in the state.
“President Tinubu told me that we must find ways to restore security and harmonious coexistence of people in the zone. The President also mandated the meeting to look into the issue of resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) including their feeding and security,” Sen. Usman said.
Speaking on the issue of N1 billion ransom demanded by bandits for the kidnapped Kuriga students and teachers, Senator Usman said, “the federal government has maintained a position that no kobo will be paid as ransom to kidnappers.”
