Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has said poverty and unemployment are responsible for banditry and kidnapping bedeviling the North West region of the country and that the best way to tackle the challenges is through good governance.
The governor stated this at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna when he received members of the Kaduna State Elders Forum who paid him a congratulatory visit over his victory at the Supreme Court.
“The most important aspect of the 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 Northern Nigeria in particular,” Sani said.
He said as Kaduna intensifies military actions against banditry and kidnapping with the support of the Defence Headquarters to build additional two Forward Operation Bases in the state, his government is 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 is getting $28 million support from Kuwait to address the problem of out-of-school children.
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 area was already yielding positive results.
