INSECURITY: El-Rufai in closed door meeting with State Assembly members, security chiefs, other stakeholders

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has reportedly met with Federal House of Representatives members, State Assembly members, security chiefs, traditional and religious leaders in order to bring the security challenges in the state under control.

The meeting staged on Wednesday according to Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, in a statement, also had in attendance traditional and religious leaders from Birnin Gwari, Chikun and Igabi Local Government Areas alongside heads of security agencies in the state.

Aruwan said Governor El-Rufai explained in detail, during the meeting, the security measures taken by the state government in the three local government areas and the state at large.

The statement by Aruwan reads in part: “The heads of security agencies also took turns to reel out their operations and current state of security in the three local government areas.

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“Traditional and religious leaders and other stakeholders in the meeting made their submissions while heads of the security agencies responded with planned operational strategies which were unanimously adopted.”

The statement further revealed that those in attendance at the meeting from the federal and state legislatures were Yakubu Umar Barde-Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency, Shehu Balarabe- Birnin Gwari/Giwa Federal Constituency and Zayyad Ibrahim-Igabi Federal Constituency.

Others according to the statement included Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani-Igabi West State Constituency, Haruna Inuwa-Doka/Gabasawa State Constituency, Abdulwahab Kurminkogi-Ikara State Constituency and Ayuba Chawaza-Chikun State Constituency.

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