Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has said over 30,000 insurgents and their families have surrendered in the ongoing kinetic security measure in the Northeast.
Mustapha said this in a keynote address delivered on his behalf by the Director of Special Service in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), David Attah, at a two-day stakeholders’ engagement on current security challenges in the Northwest.
The zone includes Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states.
The workshop, with the theme: Enhancing the Role of Local Communities in the Security Architecture through Awakening Security Awareness and Consciousness, was organized to is part of the non-kinetic approaches to “sensitize the communities on the need to collaborate with government at all levels to tackle the menace of armed banditry and other related crimes in the Northwest”.
The SGF said the Federal Government was concerned about security challenges across the country and had been working assiduously to reduce the trend to the barest minimum.
He added that tackling insecurity is one of the three priority areas of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
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