By Correspondent in Ilorin
Nigeria will soon end most of its security problems and create employment opportunities for the youth across the nation when National Taskforce (NATFORCE) fully becomes operational.
The Kwara state Director- of the NATFORCE, Emmanuel Morakinyo, said this while speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday.
He that the Federal government security agency, formed through ECOWAS bill and currently operating in 15 West African countries, would focus on intelligence gathering to tackle the nation’s security challenges.
Morakinyo, who said that officers and men of the NATFORCE had arrested criminals and rustlers making life unbearable for people in some states of the federation, added that the suspected criminal had been handed over to the Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corps offices and the Police for prosecution.
“We are very optimistic that we will soon bring an end to most of our insecurity problems in Nigeria, including banditary, militancy and kidnapping and invariably create employment opportunities for the youths across the nation.
“We shall synergize with other government agencies for the purpose of ending kidnapping, political violence and all forms of cultism among our youths in our communities through sharing of intelligence information with other security agencies,”he said.
According to him, the security outfit will involve in application of community policing strategy, he noted is part of government policy to combating crime and criminality in Nigeria.
The NATFORCE director, who lamented increasing rate of cultism among primary and secondary students in the country, said that members of such groups usually turned out to be pickpockets, thugs, killers and armed robbers later.
“More worrisome trend is the involvement of minors, both males and females, in cultism and crimes.
“Most shocking is the fact that, after initiating these underaged boys and girls into cultism, they are further introduced to robbery and other forms of criminalities.
NATFORCE is ready to regulate all these forms of crimes,” he added.
Morakinyo also said that NATFORCE, based on National Commission for the Prohibition of Illegal Importation of Small arms, Ammunition and Light Weapons, was charged with the responsibility to regulate and prohibit proliferation of small arms, ammunition, light weapons and other related matters.
He advised members of the public to disregard associations impersonating the NATFORCE, describing them as impersonators and extortionists.
