The police officers who were killed in an ambush by bandits in Bauchi State have been laid to rest.
We earlier reported how the officers were gunned down at Sabon Sara village in Darazo Local Government Area of the state while responding to a distress call.
On Monday, the Commissioner of Police, CP Sani Omolori Aliyu, led his men to their funeral in Bauchi.
As of the time of reporting this, details of the funeral remain unclear.
Meanwhile, Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris has urged the Nigerian Army to adopt a different approach to tackling the rising insecurity in the country. The governor made this call when he received the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas, at the Government House, Birnin-Kebbi, on Monday.
Idris also reiterated his call for a probe into the withdrawal of military personnel deployed to the Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Maga, minutes before bandits abducted 25 schoolgirls.
He said, “How can over 500 bandits be moving on bikes on our highways without being checked? We are doing our obligations to the security agencies. We provide them with logistics, bought over 100 vehicles for them, but their security architecture is not working.”
He added, “If we knew they would leave our girls for the bandits to take away, we wouldn’t have listened to the advice they gave us to deploy security personnel. We would have just shut down the school.
“I think some enemies are working to truncate this government and the federal government; and the House must do something, especially about the lingering security situation in the country.
“Yesterday it was Kebbi, today it is Niger and Kwara; who knows who is next? We must all see to it that this insecurity must be addressed.”
The insecurity in Nigeria has claimed the lives of not only citizens but also security personnel, a development that continues to raise concerns that bandits and terrorists may possess more firepower than security operatives.
