Herdsmen can no longer enter Kano without Police clearance__ CP

The Kano State Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Dikko has announced that herdsmen without clearance will no longer be allowed to enter Kano.  This is as the command assured expatriates residing in the ancient city of Kano of their safety.

You will recall that some expatriates especially the Chinese were recently kidnapped in Niger State; this development has spread fear in the mind of expatriates in the region.

While speaking on Wednesday on the influx of illegal miners and Fulani herdsmen from Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Jigawa among others, the Commissioner of Police said migrants and herders without clearance will be outrightly turned back as it is unaccepted.

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“This morning (Wednesday morning), I had meetings with the leaders of Fulani in Kaduna, Jigawa, and Katsina states. We agreed that any of the herders or miners who are coming into Kano must come with a letter from our police formations of that state.

“If we see you and you don’t have such identification, we send you back to where you are coming from. We are on alert and anybody coming into Kano unauthorized must be turned back. They may be bandits, criminals, or other bad people. So we will not accept this in Kano.”

While speaking with newsmen shortly after an emergency meeting of heads of security agencies and expatriates at the Bompai police headquarters, he, however, disclosed that the meeting was to take proactive measures to synergize and strategize to forestall any breach of security in the state.

CP Dikko noted that  “The expatriates, especially the Chinese in Kano, are a little bit apprehensive of the general security situation in the country. So we are making efforts to ensure that all the expatriates in Kano are safe.

“We, the security agencies, met and made arrangements on how the security will be intact.