Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday lamented the spate of insecurity in Nigeria,
According to him, there is a dire need to introduce adequate technology to defeat the security challenges in the country.
“Since crime has gone to the next level in Nigeria, strategy too has to go to the next level,” he said while receiving the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, in Kano.
He said it was in consideration of that reality that the state government installed CCTV in some strategic places in Kano to secure the lives and property of people.
“We have installed CCTV all over the metropolitan city, and now laying optic fibre to complement the satellite services.
“We also have trackers, and at the major entrance of Kano metropolis, we built security dormitories where we have a number of security agents manning the major entrances,” he said.
Gaduje added that his government established a Ruga project at Dansoshiya forest that shares a border with Katsina State.
According to him, herdsmen have now settled there, as such it will be difficult for any bandit to make the forest his home.
“Coming to one of the biggest forests in the country, Falgore forest, we established a military training ground and it is now working,” he said.