Treat Informants Like Bandits, Governor Aliyu Tells Security Agencies

Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has directed information agencies to dainty anyone recovered to beryllium an informant the aforesaid mode they dainty bandits.

The politician gave the directive successful Wurno and Rabah section authorities areas during his condolence sojourn to the communities precocious affected by bandits’ attacks.

He reiterated his administration’s unwavering committedness to tackling banditry. He urged the residents of agrarian communities to study anyone recovered surviving supra their means to the applicable authorities for due investigation.

Governor Aliyu expressed dismay implicit the activities of immoderate unpatriotic citizens who prosecute arsenic informants for peanuts.

He warned specified individuals and their accomplices to desist and question morganatic sources of livelihood, stressing that nary informant volition beryllium spared nether the caller strategy adopted to curb banditry successful the state.

“We are determined to food retired these dastardly informants and those aiding banditry from our agrarian communities by each means.

“We are truthful appealing for the accustomed enactment from each well-meaning citizens to reconstruct lasting bid successful communities ravaged by insecurity successful the state,” helium stated.

The Governor further called connected Imams of some Jumu’at and regular supplication Mosques to sensitise their congregations connected the Islamic presumption regarding banditry, informant activities, and different forms of criminality.

Highlighting his administration’s efforts to extremity banditry, Aliyu listed measures specified arsenic providing implicit 170 patrol vehicles and motorcycles, upward reappraisal of allowances for information unit deployed to volatile areas, and establishing the State’s Community Guard Corps.

He renewed his administration’s readiness to proceed supporting the information agencies successful the combat against insecurity.

The Governor thanked the state’s radical for their continued enactment and prayers for his administration, urging them to prolong the gesture.