PRESS RELEASE
LET’S COLLABORATE TO TACKLE KIDNAPPING AND SUNDRY CRIMINALITIES. Interior Minister tasked Police and Civil defense Chiefs

The Honourable Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General ( Rtd) Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau has tasked the Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps on better synergy to decapitate Kidnapping and sundry criminalities currently plaguing the Country .

The Minister told a gathering comprising of top management of the Police and NSCDC, as well as the zonal AIGs and their NSCDC counterparts that crime pattern is not static but dynamic, hence the need for the two agencies to workout better synergy considering the fact that criminals do not operate in isolation.
He observed that in the face of rising security concern, there is need for both agencies to collaborate with other security services in sharing intelligence, manpower development through joint training, and joint operations.

General Dambazau noted this has become imperative considering the need to share resources by the services to address security issues, while creating a safe and conducive environment which will attract the much desired direct foreign investments, needed to revamp the nation’s economy.

The meeting was attended by the Ag Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Interior, Mr Mohammed Maccido MFR and directors in the Ministry.

In a similar development, the Minister of Interior has condemned in strong terms, the senseless killing of innocent Nigerians at a mining site in Zamfara State. While condoling with the Government and people of Zamfara over the most reprehensible attack, General Dambazau has mandated the Police and NSCDC to apprehend perpetrators of this dastardly act, with a view to bringing them to justice. Accordingly, the Minister said this attack has strengthen his resolve to collaborate with the Ministry of Mines and Solid Minerals to establish a special squad compressing of NSCDC personnel to protect organized mining sites across the country.



OSAIGBOVO EHISIENMEN
Press Secretary to the Honourable Minister of Interior.

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