Fayemi Calls For Technology Deployment In Tackling Banditry

Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, says banditry in the country will become a thing of the past if the right infrastructure and technology is put in place.

While noting that bandits are not invincible and invisible, Fayemi called for massive investment in technology to secure schools across the country.

Ekohotblog reports that Schools in the north have become the target of bandits and gunmen in recent months, hundreds of students have been kidnapped from schools in the beleaguered region in the last four months.

Latest in the coordinated invasion of schools was the attack on the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Kaduna, during which more than 30 students abducted.

The Afaka incident was swiftly followed by another attack on UBE school in Rama, Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna state, during which three teachers were kidnapped.

In both instances, the kidnapped victims are still in the custody of the bandits.

But speaking when he featured on a Channels Television programme on Friday, Fayemi stated that schools across the country could be safe and secured if the right measures were put in place.

He added that, with technology, bandits can be traced, and their activities forestalled.

He also advised that building perimeter fences and deploying security operatives to guard schools would stave off attacks on schools

“We need to at least take some basic precautionary measures by providing — across the length and breadth of our country — schools with perimeter fences. We can also put vigilante, security operatives in those schools,” he said.

“But more than anything else, we need to invest in technology, because these people are not ghosts — those who are responsible for this. We know where they are. People can track them, but somehow, we appear a little bit handicapped in responding effectively to the menace of criminals and bandits in the country. Instead, we’ve provided silly excuses by attaching it to the ethnicity of whoever is culpable, rather than focusing on the crime committed.”

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