Crime has gone to “next level”, we need technology to combat it – Ganduje Tells IGP

 

“We have installed CCTV all over the metropolitan city, and are now laying optic fibre to complement the satellite services.”

Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje has called for the deployment of technology to address the security challenges in the country, if the fight is to be won.

“Since crime has gone to the next level in Nigeria, strategy too has to go to the next level,” Mr Ganduje said, while receiving the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, in Kano on Wednesday.

The governor said it was in consideration of that reality that the state government installed CCTV in some strategic places in Kano, to secure the lives and property of people.

“We have installed CCTV all over the metropolitan city, and are now laying optic fibre to complement the satellite services.

“We also have trackers, and at the major entrance of Kano metropolis, we built security dormitories where we have a number of security agents manning the major entrances,” he said.

The governor also said the government established the Ruga project at Dansoshiya forest that shares a border with Katsina State.

According to him, herdsmen have now settled there, as such it will be difficult for any bandit to make the forest his home.

“Coming to one of the biggest forests in the country, Falgore forest, we established a military training ground and it is now working,” he said.

Earlier, IGP Baba had told the governor that he was in the state in connection with the passing out ceremony of Cadets of Nigeria Police Academy Wudil, Kano.

He commended the state government for its effort in providing security agents with an enabling environment to secure lives and property.

He explained that it was when there was security that there would be peace, hence the need for all stakeholders to join hands to secure the state.