Osinbajo States Strategy To Curb Insecurity

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government needs more local intelligence to make the supply of information faster in the fight against insecurity.

He was reacting to the killing of farmers in Borno State. Members of the Boko Haram sect had killed at least 43 farmers in Zamarmari area of Jere local government area of the state on Saturday.

Speaking with journalists during a one-day visit to Nasarawa State on Tuesday, Osinbajo restated President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to eliminating insurgency.

According to a statement from his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the vice president said he had spoken with the State Governor, Babagana Zulum, to express his condolence.

“As the President said, these group of people have acted insanely in such a dastardly manner, killing innocent people, people who had gone to their farms to work,” he said.

“I spoke to the Governor, Governor Babagana Zulum and the former Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima to express my condolence, but more importantly, to try and think through ways of dealing with this kind of random attacks.

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“We have to do a lot more local intelligence and some of the community policing efforts we are planning on, so that information is supplied faster, especially at the local level and then a reaction will then be possible.”

Osinbajo, who stated that Buhari is taking a “serious look” at how to deal with the security challenges, said government would need to keep reviewing the conventional ways of the dealing with the issues.

“It’s important to understand also that we will probably need to keep reviewing the conventional means of dealing with some of these issues, these security challenges, especially the randomness.

“Which is why the President has said that he is taking a serious look at how to deal with the issues, especially the randomness: some insane person goes into a place and shoots people, that is not the sort of thing that you are prepared for conventionally,” he added.