Niger CP Blames Difficult Terrain for Banditry
Laleye Dipo
The Niger State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adamu Usman, has attributed the persistent banditry in parts of Niger State to the difficult terrain of some areas of the state and lack of communication network that made distress calls to get to the late.
Usman also included rape, cattle rustling and armed robbery among the challenges facing the police in the state.
He made those comments yesterday when he spoke with journalists at the premises of the Niger State House of Assembly after a closed door session with legislators who invited him to explain why bandits continued to hold sway in the state, especially in the Niger East Senatorial Zone.
The police commissioner said: “The particular challenges we face are the difficult terrain and communication. There are some places that if you have to go, you have to go through Kaduna State so the terrain is a problem, and also some of these communities have no network connection. So, before information gets to us, the bandits would have escaped.”
The police boss sought the cooperation of the lawmakers in providing information to the police of their closeness to the people in the rural area.
He assured the legislators that the police would continue to do its best to ensure that banditry would be removed permanently eliminated in the state.
Moreover, the Niger Accountability Group (NAG), has claimed in its 2020 first quarter report last May that not less than 92 persons were killed by bandits in the state during the period.