Kidnapping, Banditry, Cultism Dropping – IGP

– Mohammed Adamu, IGP,  said the crime rate in Nigeria has dropped drastically in comparison with two quarters ago

– Adamu said the police have been charged by President Buhari to do more to end insecurity in the country 

–  According to him, banditry has reduced tremendously, kidnapping also has gone down and we have statistics to back it

The Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday, September 19, declared that the crime rate in the country has dropped drastically in comparison with two quarters ago.

Ekohotblog.com Adamu stated that the banditry, kidnapping and cultism have decreased.

He said President Buhari urged the security agencies to keep up the good work towards achieving a near-zero crime rate in the country.

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Adamu briefed State House correspondents at the end of security chiefs meeting with the president at the State House.

He also justified the current dialogue between bandits in the northeast and the State governors and the security agencies.

This, he said, would bring peace to the area. He pointed out that dialogue and negotiations were used by the late president Umaru Yar’Adua to solve the militancy problem in the Niger Delta that resulted to the amnesty programme for the repented militants.

He said that the use of kinetic action sometimes does not solve a problem rather negotiation and dialogue bring peace.

He said: “We just finished security meeting and we have noticed within this quarter that the security situation in the country is stable, we make comparison of what has happened in the previous quarters and this quarter and we saw that there is tremendous decrease in kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery and even acts of cultism.

“And you can see the situation in Northwest, banditry has reduced tremendously, kidnapping also has gone down and we have statistics to back it.

“And having noticed that, we have been charged by President to do more. He wants to see a near-zero crime society in the whole of the country. So we have been charged to do more than what we are doing now in fact, in the whole of the country.

“Recently, there have been series of peace initiatives especially the Tiv/Jukun crisis, the federal government came up with initiatives by bringing the leadership of the two states and their traditional rulers and we have been asked to support that initiative and see to it that dialogue succeeds and that there is peace between the Jukun and Tivs.

“We have also been charged to increase security along the pipelines to make sure that crude oil theft is stopped completely because the loss that the country is facing in that area is not tolerated.

“So we have been charged to increase our security activities in that direction to make sure that crude oil theft is stopped completely.”

On what was done differently to improve security situation in the present quarter, he said “What we have done apart from the peace initiative and the dialogues that we came up with through organization of security summit.

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“If you remember we went to the Northwestern zone of this country, we sat down with the traditional rulers and all the governors and the leadership of Miyetti Allah and they identified some of the challenges that are fuelling kidnapping and banditry.

“Those challenges were looked into to the extent that the bandits and kidnappers have decided to release their captives and surrendered their arms, that has contributed and also those that have refused to accept the peace initiative.

“We have been able to identify their camps especially Abuja/Kaduna road and along Birnin Gwari Niger axis and we went to the camps of these kidnappers and we dislodged some of the camps.”