Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has said that poverty and unemployment were responsible for the security challenges of banditry and kidnapping bedeviling the North-West region of the country and the best way to tackle the menaces was through entrenchment of good governance.
The governor stated this at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna, on Monday, while receiving members of the Kaduna State Elders Forum, who paid him a congratulatory visit over his recent legal victory at the Supreme Court.
He said as Kaduna State Government intensifies military actions against banditry and kidnapping with the support of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), which built additional two Forward Operation Bases (FOBs) in the state, his government was also adopting good governance as the best non-kinetic solution to the security challenges.
Governor Sani, who noted that the alarming rate of out-of-school children must also be addressed to ensure a secured state and region, disclosed that the state was getting $28million support from Kuwait to address the problem of out-of-school children.
“The most important aspect of non-kinetic approach is good governance. No matter how much we talk and try to bring about peace, if we don’t look at the area of good governance, we will never end the problem of insecurity in the Northern Nigeria in particular,” Governor Sani said.
Earlier, the Kaduna Elders’ Forum led by General Zamani Lekwot (rtd) and Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha while congratulating the governor over his electoral victory, said his governance approach of developing the rural areas was already yielding positive results.
