Dislodged Northeast bandits now setting up in Nasarawa — Gov Sule
The Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has said that bandits bucked off Nigeria’s Northeast have now found a safe haven in his state.
The governor made this known while speaking with newsmen after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock on Tuesday. He said security agencies are working hard to tackle the activities of bandits in Nasarawa, Daily Times reports.
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“The criminals in Nasarawa State are new. They are not from Nasarawa State so, as a result of that, our own people are more familiar with the ground and are able to follow where they are,” Governor Sule said.
“We have some of the bandits that were dislodged from the north-east who found some of these hilly places in Nasarawa State. We have a lot of rocky places, comfortable. So they moved to those locations and, as a result of that, we followed up to ensure that we tracked them based on what they do.
“There are people who actually go on the way to the villages and the cities and sometimes kidnap people and we follow them and we also have armed robbers. We have all the three in Nasarawa.
“By the grace of God we have a very good police commissioner in Nasarawa, excellent director of DSS and a fantastic director for Civil Defence and they all work together, along with all the military installations that we have.”
Governor Sule further said that the state government has been able to use vigilante groups to square off against these criminals.
