The Plateau state Governor, Simon Lalong of Plateau, has said the 19 Northern states had gone far in their efforts to introduce community policing in the region.
Lalong stated this in a chat with State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said he was at the Presidential Villa to brief the president on security issues in Plateau, particularly the January 9 attack in which 13 people died in Mangu Local Government Area, and the efforts being made to contain the situation.
Lalong said that his timely intervention and presence in the villages where the attack and reprisals occurred helped in restoring calm in the area.
On the new security move by the South-west, tagged Amotekun, Lalong said the North had made serious arrangements on community policing.
He said, “When you talk about North-central, I am the chairman of Northern Governors Forum; I think we have taken a decision sometimes last year; when this issue came, you understand, at one time, I met the president; and we told him what we are doing.
“We set up committees and the committees have worked very hard; we started our meetings even from the North-west; we had a meeting in Katsina; we are going back to have another meeting in the North-central.
“The situation in the South may not be the same in the North, but in the North, we are also looking at some ways we will also address these issues.
“So, we have gone ahead to put in committees and those committees have done their work and we are now expecting to have a meeting to address the issues and look at ways of addressing these issues once and for all.
“Two, in the North, we have also agreed to key into community policing; at the level of the committee, they are already very far; each state
The governor also said is already neck deep in respect to community policing; the one in the South, I have not read the document.”investigation on the Mangu attack confirmed that it started when a group of cattle rustlers took away over 100 cattle.
