DIG urges Sokoto leaders, youths to support fight against banditry

Deputy Inspector-General of Police successful complaint of Administration and Finance, Suleiman Muhammad Abdul, has called connected accepted rulers, spiritual leaders, youths and assemblage groups successful Sokoto State to enactment information agencies successful tackling banditry, arms trafficking and different crimes successful the North-West.

Abdul made the telephone on Monday during a stakeholders’ engagement successful Sokoto, wherever helium said addressing insecurity required the progressive information of section communities.

He noted that Sokoto’s borderline with the Niger Republic made the authorities susceptible to arms trafficking and different transnational crimes.

The DIG urged accepted rulers to fortify grassroots quality gathering, portion spiritual leaders should proceed to preach bid and discourage violence. 

He besides called connected youths to defy recruitment by transgression groups.

Abdul said the Nigeria Police Force would proceed to beforehand assemblage policing and intelligence-led operations to amended information crossed Sokoto and the wider North-West region.

Earlier, the Commissioner of Police successful Sokoto State, Hayatu Usman, said ...