Atiku Offers Tactical Advice To Conquer Insecurity

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar has commiserated with the victims of the Zamfara and Katsina gunmen attack that happened last week.

At least 26 persons had been killed in the attacks in Safana and Maradun local government areas of Katsina and Zamfara states, reports said.

In the Katsina attack which happened on Thursday, 11 people, mostly vigilantes and officials were reported killed, while 51 silos were burnt.  

Reacting to the killings, the former presidential candidate said he is saddened by the destruction going on in that region of Nigeria. 

“It is saddening to condole yet again with families of victims of these attacks,” Atiku tweeted via his verified handle on Tuesday. “These reckless killings that have turned the beautiful landscape of the North into a slaughter field must stop.”   

Atiku who worked in the Nigerian Customs Service during the Nigerian Civil War in 1969 after obtaining a diploma in law suggested that using secret tactical teams to infiltrate the camps of the attackers may be a solution to the incessant attacks and wanton killings.

“While I commiserate with the governments in Katsina and Zamfara States over these particular attacks, I urge that state governments set up secret tactical teams to infiltrate some of these criminal elements to gather intelligence that might forestall some of these ugly scenarios,” Atiku added.

While I commiserate with the governments in Katsina and Zamfara States over these particular attacks, I urge that state governments set up secret tactical teams to infiltrate some of these criminal elements to gather intelligence that might forestall some of these ugly scenarios.

— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) January 19, 2021

Katsina, Zamfara and many other states in northern Nigeria have come under several attacks in the last few years. On December 19, 2020, armed men attacked an Islamic school and kidnapped 80 students in Katsina State. The attack on the Islamic school came barely a week after more than 300 boys were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Kankara in the same state. On December 17, about six days after the kidnapping and a lot of intrigues, the boys were announced to be freed somewhere across the borders of Katsina in neighbouring Zamfara.