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Nigeria: 'Why Govt Set Up Security Outfit'
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This Day (Lagos)
27 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
George Oji
Kaduna
The increasing wave of highway robbery, assassination of innocent citizens, rape of under aged children, abduction, assassination, arson, car snatching, recurrent ethno-religious turmoil and other related crimes are some of the reasons why the Kaduna State Government set up its own security outfit, code named Operation Yaki.
Kaduna State Commissioner for Information and Home Affairs, Saidu Adamu, disclosed this during the first quarterly media briefing at the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat Kaduna .
Adamu said the establishment of the security outfit was also in fulfillment of first of the 11 point agenda of the present administration, which is the security of peace and development, to restore hope and instill confidence on the good people of the state.
He explained that the main objective of the outfit was to curb the rate of crimes in the Kaduna metropolis, including the highways and all the Local Government Areas of the state. The Commissioner further disclosed that the State Government has also complimented the operation of the outfit with helicopter to provide aerial surveillance on the highways and metropolis, including monitoring NNPC pipelines. He further disclosed that in order to encourage the operatives, robust welfare services, including insurance cover have been provided by the Government.
The commissioner also highlighted some of the achievement of the present government recorded in the areas of health, sports and youths development, agriculture, works, women affairs and social development, education, poverty alleviation etc.
In the health sector, Adamu said that the State Government has upgraded the Zaria , Kafanchan, Barau Dikko specialist hospitals to the status of Reference Hospitals in line with Government's commitment to providing improved healthcare delivery.
Adamu explained that in realisation of the importance of food production in the economy of the state, Government has embarked on a number of interventionist programmes to boost food production and supply in the state. For instance, the State Government has already supplied subsidised fertilizer worth N584.4 million to farmers this farming season. It is also embarking on the establishment of grain silos in the Kafanchan, Saminaka and Birini Gwari areas of the state.
The project is worth N1.5 billion. In addition, it has supplied improved seeds to farmers in the state for the current farming season worth N35.5 million.
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Further more, other subsidised farming equipment have been made available to farmers in the state in addition to the establishment of four grazing reserves located in the Kachia, Birini Gwari, Kargako and Anchau areas of the state.
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