The Federal Government (FG) has drastically reduced killings
associated to herders attacks, cattle rustling, trans-border crimes, reports ITREALMS.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
revealed this at a special town hall meeting on measures by he Federal
Government to curb killings in Gusau, Zamfara State on Monday.
He also said these achievements were as a result of concerted and committed actions
by the government.
Mohammed highlighted some measures taken to curtail the herders
attacks, cattle rustling and other acts
of banditry to include deployment of a Joint Military Intervention Force
(JMIF), comprising Regular and Special Forces personnel from the Army, Air
Force and Navy, and working in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force, Department
of State Security (DSS), and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC).
In addition, he said, FG established the Army’s 2 Battalion
Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Kanfanin Doka Village, Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna
State.as well as established a new Area Command and two additional Divisional Police Headquarters in the Birnin
Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Further, he said, FG established Nigerian Air Force of Quick
Response Wings (QRW) in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States, and deployment of
Special Forces to these Quick Response Wings.
He equally said that the inauguration by the Nigeria Police
Force of a new Mobile Squadron in Takum, Taraba State, and Operation 'Whirl
Stroke', operating in Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara states, were to
tackle the menace of armed herdsmen, cattle rustlers, communal militias,
kidnappers and other bandits.
“I have no doubt that the good people of Zamfara can testify
to the drastic reduction in the activities of cattle rustlers and other bandits
in the state since the Federal Government assembled a 1000-strong military
force, comprising the army, air force, police and the civil defence, to launch
fierce attacks on the bandits terrorizing the villages and towns of Zamfara
State. The situation will continue to improve until the violence has stopped,”
he said.
Nenye Dom/GEE
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