By Kola Oyelere The Kano State Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Dikko on Wednesday announced that herdsmen without clearance will...
By Kola Oyelere
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Dikko on
Wednesday announced that herdsmen without clearance will not be allowed to
enter Kano. This is as the command
assured expatriates residing in the ancient city of Kano of their safety.
It will be recalled that some expatriates especially Chinese
were recently kidnapped in Niger State. This development has spread fear in the
mind of expatriates in the region.
While speaking on the influx of illegal miners and Fulani
herdsmen from Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Jigawa among others, the
Commissioner of Police said migrants and herders without clearance will be
outrightly turned back as it is unaccepted.
“This morning (Wednesday morning), I had meetings with the
leaders of Fulani in Kaduna, Jigawa and Katsina states. We agreed that any of
the herders or miners who are coming into Kano must come with a letter from our
police formations of that state.
“If we see you and you don’t have such identification, we
send you back to where you are coming from. We are on alert and anybody coming
into Kano unauthorized must be turned back. They may be bandits, criminals or
other bad people. So we will not accept this in Kano.”
While speaking with newsmen shortly after an emergency
meeting of heads of security agencies and expatriates at the Bompai police
headquarters, he, however, disclosed that the meeting was to take proactive
measures to synergize and strategize to forestall any breach of security in the
state.
CP Dikko noted that
“The expatriates, especially the Chinese in Kano, are a little bit
apprehensive of the general security situation in the country. So we are making
efforts to ensure that all the expatriates in Kano are safe.
“We, the security agencies, met and made arrangements on how
the security will be intact.
“We had a meeting with the head of the Chinese people and we
assured them that their security will be intact.
“We will continue to synergize, share intelligence to ensure
that the expatriates that are here in Kano live in peace and going about with
their businesses without hitches,” he said.
“We have a large number of expatriates in the state because
of the economic position of Kano in this country. We have a large number of
them especially the Chinese who are here for business, as well as construction
companies. We are also expecting more to come because of the security
availability in the state.”
The Commissioner of Police, however, advised the expatriates
in the state to remain security conscious, stop unnecessary movement and report
any suspicious movement to security agencies.
Commenting on the ongoing attacks by hoodlums on police
formations in Southern part of the country, the CP said, “In Kano, we have made
serious arrangements with other sister agencies to make sure that we fortify
and defend our police station, people of Kano and our officers. We are very
much ready.”
On the rising cases of phone snatching by hoodlums, the CP
threatened to start arresting local blacksmiths who produce knives and daggers,
as well as those found selling the weapons in the state.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Dikko also hinted that plans
were underway by the command to expand its “anti-daba squad.”
“We have only one office for them, but we have decided to
open three more offices. We had about 50 officers and men, but right now, we
are increasing the number. We are also involving the mobile policemen to enable
us to add more manpower to the anti-daba squad,” CP Dikko noted.
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