The governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, declared on Monday that his administration was prepared to fight against bandits, kidnappers, and all other types of criminal activity in the state.
Mohammed said this while visiting the family of former governor Ahmed Muazu to express his condolences. in the state's Tafawa Balewa Local Government region, in the settlement of Boto.
According to NAN, some of the former governor's family members were recently abducted, and a 25-year-old man was slain in the process.
“We are going to take stringent measures, some of those measures that are outside the security rules engagement, we are going to use vigilante and community relations.
“Because this is the house of a former governor and those people who came, the hooligans and the charlatans, they came to insult us.
“It is a big affront and we want to take it as such, we will not sleep until we get them, we will not sleep until we protect our leaders because we have been exposed to the vagaries of expectations,” he said
According to him, “this is a pure village settlement, it is not his fault that his relations are here and certainly we have to protect everyone and we know that they have informants.
“But our security agencies are working very hard to make sure they protect us and apprehend them”.
However, the governor urged local government executives, District Heads, and Village Heads to share information to reduce crime.
“Please, don’t sleep, because nobody will do that for you; you have to protect yourselves; you have to stand up and protect yourselves; they cannot overcome us but we have to overcome them.”
“We know their routes, they are coming from Plateau state through Kurgwi to Kardam and Lere and so on.
“Insha Allah, since we know their routes and with technology, we are going to get them,” he said.
Mohammed said that his administration commiserated with the affected families, assured to get to the hoodlums, adding that “we are going to be very daring against them”.
Earlier, Police Commissioner, Umar Sanda assured that his Officers and men are on top of the situation and very soon they will make a breakthrough in apprehending the criminals.
Sanda promised to continue to do his best to effectively police the entire state and keep the residents safe and protected.
