Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has challenged residents to expose the informants among them. Sokoto is currently among the North West States with high level of attacks. Daily Trust had reported how policemen recently combed bushes and neutralised bandits terrorising Sokoto residents, recovering AK-47 rifles, two magazines and 54 rounds of live ammunition. Speaking in Bodinga Local Government Area of the state, during the flag-off of the sale of food items at subsidized rates, on Wednesday, the governor said his administration had been providing support to security agencies to curb the menace of armed banditry. He said his administration had done its best in supporting the security agencies, citing the recent provision of 62 armoured vehicles, in addition to more than 200 patrol vehicles and 2,000 motorcycles earlier donated to security agencies to enhance their operations and combat banditry in the state. “We need to understand that addressing insecurity requires our collective support, and therefore, we must assist the security agencies with relevant information.” “We must equally expose informants living among us because they provide the bandits with information on happenings in our rural communities,” he said. The governor also appealed to the people of the state to continue to pray fervently for an end to insecurity in the state and the nation at large. He said state governments are better funded under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to Governor Aliyu, state governments now receive more funds from the Federal Government, enabling them to execute meaningful projects and programmes that have a direct impact on the lives of the people. “All the developmental projects we are executing in the state are as a result of the adequate funding we are receiving from the Federal Government.” “Similarly, all the palliatives we have been providing to our people, including this sale of food items at subsidized rates, as well as the payment of salaries on the 18th of every month, are also as a result of the adequate funding we receive from the Federal Government.” Governor Aliyu, to this end, called on the people of the state to ignore what he described as campaigns of calumny against Tinubu and urged them to support his candidacy in the 2027 presidential election. Aliyu further assured President Tinubu of his administration’s total support for his re-election in 2027.
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