IGP DISU SEEKS JOINT STRATEGY TO TACKLE BANDITRY, KIDNAPPING AT NORTH-WEST SECURITY SUMMIT

IGP DISU SEEKS JOINT STRATEGY TO TACKLE BANDITRY, KIDNAPPING AT NORTH-WEST SECURITY SUMMIT

The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has called for a coordinated, intelligence-driven and community-supported strategy to tackle banditry, kidnapping, arms trafficking and other security threats confronting the North-West.

Speaking at the North-West Security Summit in Gusau, Zamfara State, the IGP said the region’s security challenges require more than sustained military and police operations, stressing the need to address the root causes of insecurity.

He identified banditry, kidnapping, arms trafficking, communal conflicts and farmer-herder tensions as major threats to lives, livelihoods and economic activities across the region.

Disu called for stronger inter-state cooperation, intelligence sharing, enhanced border security, coordinated operations and deeper community engagement, while cautioning against ethnic and religious profiling.

The IGP stressed that criminality has no ethnicity and terrorism has no religion, urging security agencies to focus on criminal networks, their financiers and facilitators, regardless of their backgrounds.

He also advocated greater youth engagement, economic empowerment, rehabilitation and stronger community partnerships to complement kinetic security operations.

Disu challenged participants at the three-day summit to move beyond resolutions and develop practical, measurable and time-bound commitments capable of translating into safer communities across the North-West.