From Paul Orude Bauchi
Governor Bala Mohammed has assured of his administration’s full support to the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) in order to defeat banditry in the State through air surveillance.
Mohammed gave the assurance when Air Vice Marshal E. E Effiong, the Officer Commanding Special Operation Command of the Nigerian Air force, NAF, Bauchi, paid him a courtesy call at Government House, Bauchi, on Thursday.
The governor lamented the activities of suspected bandits who have been terrorising residents in Toro, Ningi, Alkaleri and Tafawa Balewa local government areas of the state of recent.
“We have been almost overwhelmed by the preponderance of insecurity elements here and there by virtue of their operations in parts of the country,” he stated.
“Bauchi State is gateway to seven states and all the regions of the north, and so we are always having all these runaways that are coming here”
Mohammed pledged to give maximum support to the Air Force Special Operation Command to flush out bandits and other criminal elements terrorising the state through air surveillance.
He was optimistic that the joint operation by the Special Operation in collaboration with other security agencies would end bandits’ incursion in the state
“This visit is very significant because I have always been looking forward to meeting them,” he said.
“The Special Operations has been doing do well in terms of air surveillance,” he stated.
The governor said his administration has established a robust relationship with the military, the police and other security agencies to address banditry.
“It is only auspicious for us to meet them (Nigeria Air Force) and thank them and give them our unalloyed support,” he stated.
He reiterated his commitment to make sure that security agencies in the state get all support to succeed in the task ahead.
“What they are doing is much beneficial to us as an agrarian state where the people depend on subsistence farming,” he stated.
“If we don’t farm then we don’t have any source of living so we must make the farms and the roads are free of any insecurity”
Speaking earlier , AVM Effiong who said the visit to Governor Mohammed was a normal routine to formally introduce himself, congratulated him on his victory at the polls
While encouraging him to continue to build on the dividends of democracy.of his first tenure, AVM EffIong assured the governor of NAF’s support to threat to the stability of the state in particular and the country as whole.