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Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has lauded the pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, for its contribution towards addressing the security challenges being experienced in the North.
The governor said this when he received a delegation of the ACF, who paid him a courtesy visit on Monday at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna.
El-Rufai said the ACF’s plan to organise a security summit in Kaduna was coming at a time the North was battling with insecurity ranging from cattle rustling, kidnapping, banditry to reprisal attacks in different parts of the region.
The governor, who noted that the summit would help in finding solutions to the unfortunate security challenges confronting the region, assured the delegation of the support of the state government towards the success of the summit.
Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the ACF, Alhaji Liman Kwande, who led the delegation, told the governor that the ACF was worried by the rise in security challenges in the region.
This, he said, was the reason the ACF was planning to organise a security summit in Kaduna to find lasting solution to the security challenge in the North.
Kwande, who represented the forum’s Chairman and a former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ahmadu Commasie, also condemned the recent attack by suspected herdsmen on the people of Godogodo in Jema’ah Local Government Area of the state.
He added that the rampant kidnapping of innocent Nigerians along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway was a source of concern to the ACF.
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