President Bola Tinubu has said that the establishment of state police is inevitable.
He recently revealed that state policing will go a long way towards strengthening security across the country.
Speaking at the Presidential Villa in Abuja during a courtesy visit by a delegation of prominent Katsina indigenes led by Governor Dikko Radda, Tinubu shared that the federal government is committed to confronting insecurity head-on.
According to him, advanced military equipment and surveillance technology would be deployed to tackle insecurity in Katsina, especially as the state continues to witness a spike in banditry.
He stated that plans are also ongoing to improve the capacity of newly recruited forest guards in the state.
“The security challenges that we are facing are surmountable. Yes, we have porous borders. We inherited weaknesses that could have been addressed earlier. It is a challenge that we must fix, and we are facing it.
I have today directed all the security agencies to energise further and look at the strategies. We have approved the additional acquisition of drones.
I am reviewing all the aspects of security; I have to create state police. We are looking at that holistically,” he said.
Tinubu further ordered security agencies to keep him updated on their operations in Katsina state.
He concluded by honouring the late Muhammadu Buhari, stressing that he did not hand over a defeated country.
“We will defeat insecurity. We must protect our children, our people, our livelihood, our places of worship, and our recreational spaces. They can’t intimidate us.
The time we lost our brother, President Buhari, is a loss for all of us. It is the will of God Almighty, but he has left in a good way.
He didn’t hand over a defeated country, a battered political structure, but a legacy of success, and that is the most important thing,” he added.
