Banditry, Kidnapping: We’ve deploy joint task force to patrol border areas – CP
By Aminu Garko
Kano, The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Hussaini Gumel said it has deployed joint task force to patrol border areas of the state to tackle issues of Banditry, Kidnapping and other related community crimes.
Gumel said it used to record pockets of incidences in the border areas, but with the deployment the activities have drastically reduced.
“Generally speaking, community crimes, especially incidences related to banditry, kidnapping and related offences, are cases that solutions cannot be found in isolation.
“In Kano State, the police is always synergizing with sister security agencies, including the military. First, we come to the table, we cross-fertilize ideas, we come up with a best-of decision, and we move together to implement those lofty decisions. As you can see, areas like Katsina boundary with Kano State, around Rogo, Karaye, Tsanyawa, Kunchi, Shanono, and those areas, we used to have pockets of incidences of kidnapping.
These are some of the areas where insurgents from Katsina used to come, pick their sub-targets and go back to Katsina and keep negotiating for ransom. We do not do it alone. We come along in collaboration with the state government and other Security Agencies.
We set up a joint task force that is patrolling that area. And you hardly hear such kind of incidences in Kano State.”
CP Gumel further stated that in very few situations where such incidences happen, the Command made collaborative effort in tackling and addressing such menace.
“A lot of rescue missions have been carried out to see that the potentially affected areas are safe.
“Several kidnappers have been arrested in their various hideouts in Katsina, and most of them have been prosecuted. Likewise, in areas and other villages that are bordering Bauchi, areas of Sumaila, Takai, and nearby local governments, several kidnappers have been arrested. In the past, these infiltrators used to come from Bauchi, take their soft targets, and then start negotiating for ransom.
But when they move with one force, that is a joint task force led by the military, they have been synergizing, they have been patrolling the area, and those incidences are now very few”.
The CP assured that the situation is being handled in line with the collaborative effort of all the security agencies in the State.
“This can be attested to by the members of the public, community leaders and religious leaders. The Command in Gumel’s words is on the right track, and people are appreciative of the effort of the police.
They are also appreciative of the effort being made by the military, the Air Force, the Navy, and, of course, National Security and Civil Defense Corps.
The security agencies are always moving as one force in order to fight banditry and other heinous crimes”.
The CP further recollected how the Command displayed some of the suspects that have been arrested by the effort of the police, and in some cases, through the joint task force effort.
Several vehicles recovered were also displayed in relation to such crimes and criminal activities. Other exhibits, including Indian hemp and other drugs were also displayed, which in most cases, are handed over to the relevant agencies for investigation and prosecution.
“Over 20 bags of cannabis were recovered, and those bags have been handed over to the NDLEA and investigation is going on. Incidences relating to human trafficking have also been tackled by the Command.
In some cases, the Command collaborates with Immigration and all efforts are being made in order to get the best result in this area.
According to Gumel, the kernel is good to go. The Command has the manpower, they have the skills and equipment, and most importantly, they have the support of the state government in doing whatever they are doing.
And that is why, when Kano State is compared with other states, especially in the north, there is no state that is as peaceful as Kano. This, nobody can take it away from them.
“Even in the metropolis, everyone can see what has been happening before in relation to incidences of cell phone snatching, which is no longer news in the state.
People have changed, people have repented, and they are not doing that. But very few individuals were identified in the metropolis, especially around Dala area, organizing themselves in form of rampaging youth that they keep creating a scenario where when they identify a target they want to rob, they go around the area in large number and they will start behaving like they are fighting among themselves.
Then everybody will be sent in a state of fear. Nobody will come out to attack them. Then they will use that tactic to attack the target they want to attack. Loot, steal, and then they will go away. The CP said “we studied the crime pattern.
We found out that these criminals are not hurting themselves. They can be in a state of fighting. You see them with a weapon, but nobody will be injured among themselves, which means they are together. It’s just a mode of crime.
They call it a modus operandi. So we now say we are not going to leave this scenario to continue. We went to Dala. We mentioned names of the people that we have identified doing this, and we told them that we have studied their mode of operations.
” These people according to Gumel are not serious type. The community should come out when they come out to fight all of them, because they are one. They are one force. They have the same agenda and the Command launched this decision that anybody that comes across them, they should be arrested.
“We are not going to compromise, and we shall never allow such incidences to continue,” Gumel declared.
Gumel also talked about charge and bail agents whom he considered as promoters of insecurity. Whenever a criminal is arrested, before he is even interrogated, such agents are already at the doorstep of police to start requesting for bail so that the police and other agencies should not interrogate them properly.
Gumel warned that those people should stay clear and allow the State be safe and peaceful, that they should give the police and other security agencies time to interrogate criminal elements in the State.
Gumel further remarked that “the era of politics is gone. It is now an era of governance. Elections are over. People should forget, farmers should go to their farms; students should go to their schools.
Politicians are now in their offices, occupying various offices for them to provide the dividend of democracy to the people that elected them. So this is a course that we must keep and we must see it being implemented in all part of the state.”
By Aminu Garko
Kano, The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Hussaini Gumel said it has deployed joint task force to patrol border areas of the state to tackle issues of Banditry, Kidnapping and other related community crimes.
Gumel said it used to record pockets of incidences in the border areas, but with the deployment the activities have drastically reduced.
“Generally speaking, community crimes, especially incidences related to banditry, kidnapping and related offences, are cases that solutions cannot be found in isolation.
“In Kano State, the police is always synergizing with sister security agencies, including the military. First, we come to the table, we cross-fertilize ideas, we come up with a best-of decision, and we move together to implement those lofty decisions. As you can see, areas like Katsina boundary with Kano State, around Rogo, Karaye, Tsanyawa, Kunchi, Shanono, and those areas, we used to have pockets of incidences of kidnapping.
These are some of the areas where insurgents from Katsina used to come, pick their sub-targets and go back to Katsina and keep negotiating for ransom. We do not do it alone. We come along in collaboration with the state government and other Security Agencies.
We set up a joint task force that is patrolling that area. And you hardly hear such kind of incidences in Kano State.”
CP Gumel further stated that in very few situations where such incidences happen, the Command made collaborative effort in tackling and addressing such menace.
“A lot of rescue missions have been carried out to see that the potentially affected areas are safe.
“Several kidnappers have been arrested in their various hideouts in Katsina, and most of them have been prosecuted. Likewise, in areas and other villages that are bordering Bauchi, areas of Sumaila, Takai, and nearby local governments, several kidnappers have been arrested. In the past, these infiltrators used to come from Bauchi, take their soft targets, and then start negotiating for ransom.
But when they move with one force, that is a joint task force led by the military, they have been synergizing, they have been patrolling the area, and those incidences are now very few”.
The CP assured that the situation is being handled in line with the collaborative effort of all the security agencies in the State.
“This can be attested to by the members of the public, community leaders and religious leaders. The Command in Gumel’s words is on the right track, and people are appreciative of the effort of the police.
They are also appreciative of the effort being made by the military, the Air Force, the Navy, and, of course, National Security and Civil Defense Corps.
The security agencies are always moving as one force in order to fight banditry and other heinous crimes”.
The CP further recollected how the Command displayed some of the suspects that have been arrested by the effort of the police, and in some cases, through the joint task force effort.
Several vehicles recovered were also displayed in relation to such crimes and criminal activities. Other exhibits, including Indian hemp and other drugs were also displayed, which in most cases, are handed over to the relevant agencies for investigation and prosecution.
“Over 20 bags of cannabis were recovered, and those bags have been handed over to the NDLEA and investigation is going on. Incidences relating to human trafficking have also been tackled by the Command.
In some cases, the Command collaborates with Immigration and all efforts are being made in order to get the best result in this area.
According to Gumel, the kernel is good to go. The Command has the manpower, they have the skills and equipment, and most importantly, they have the support of the state government in doing whatever they are doing.
And that is why, when Kano State is compared with other states, especially in the north, there is no state that is as peaceful as Kano. This, nobody can take it away from them.
“Even in the metropolis, everyone can see what has been happening before in relation to incidences of cell phone snatching, which is no longer news in the state.
People have changed, people have repented, and they are not doing that. But very few individuals were identified in the metropolis, especially around Dala area, organizing themselves in form of rampaging youth that they keep creating a scenario where when they identify a target they want to rob, they go around the area in large number and they will start behaving like they are fighting among themselves.
Then everybody will be sent in a state of fear. Nobody will come out to attack them. Then they will use that tactic to attack the target they want to attack. Loot, steal, and then they will go away. The CP said “we studied the crime pattern.
We found out that these criminals are not hurting themselves. They can be in a state of fighting. You see them with a weapon, but nobody will be injured among themselves, which means they are together. It’s just a mode of crime.
They call it a modus operandi. So we now say we are not going to leave this scenario to continue. We went to Dala. We mentioned names of the people that we have identified doing this, and we told them that we have studied their mode of operations.
” These people according to Gumel are not serious type. The community should come out when they come out to fight all of them, because they are one. They are one force. They have the same agenda and the Command launched this decision that anybody that comes across them, they should be arrested.
“We are not going to compromise, and we shall never allow such incidences to continue,” Gumel declared.
Gumel also talked about charge and bail agents whom he considered as promoters of insecurity. Whenever a criminal is arrested, before he is even interrogated, such agents are already at the doorstep of police to start requesting for bail so that the police and other agencies should not interrogate them properly.
Gumel warned that those people should stay clear and allow the State be safe and peaceful, that they should give the police and other security agencies time to interrogate criminal elements in the State.
Gumel further remarked that “the era of politics is gone. It is now an era of governance. Elections are over. People should forget, farmers should go to their farms; students should go to their schools.
Politicians are now in their offices, occupying various offices for them to provide the dividend of democracy to the people that elected them. So this is a course that we must keep and we must see it being implemented in all part of the state.”
