Governor Amino Bello Masari of Katsina State yesterday advised the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the present state of security in the country.
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Masari said this was necessary to “bring an end to the loss of lives and property.”
The governor spoke as residents in the Northwest begin to express optimism that the terror reign of gunmen in the geopolitical zone is fast coming to an end.
Although Masari acknowledged the ongoing efforts of the security agencies to curtail the insecurity in different parts of the country, he said more action was required to put the bandits terrorising the country out of business.
“The Federal Government should declare a state of emergency on the nation’s security,” he said at the opening of the third quarter general meeting of the Conference of Speakers of the 36 State Houses of Assembly in Katsina.
He added: “Though the security agencies are doing their best to curtail the state of insecurity in different parts of the country, more needs to be done to curtail the activities of bandits and other criminal elements across the country.”
He cited his state which, according to him, is facing enormous security challenges.
Katsina is the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Masari said his administration, with the support of the State House of Assembly, has put in place “some legal framework to address the security challenges.”
“We have created three-tier security committee across the 34 local government areas: to provide security agencies with useful information and assist in effective policing at the communal levels,” he said, adding that he had recently signed a security containment order to stabilise the state.
The Chairman of the Speakers’ Conference, Alhaji Abubakar Suleiman, described the security challenges facing the country as disturbing and a serious threat to the nation’s economic growth and development.
Suleiman, who is also the Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, said all hands must be on deck to fight the menace of insecurity for the good of the nation.
He said: “As representatives of the people at the grassroots, we are indeed worried by the negative trend of insecurity in the nation.”
He said the meeting was essentially to discuss and proffer solution to “this problem within our constitutional mandate.”
Apart from the Boko Haram menace in the Northeast, bandits have been unleashing terror on residents of the Northwestern states of Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto over the last few months, kidnapping and killing people as well as rustling cows at will.
The security agencies have, in response, turned the heat on them.
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