Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has adjudged Kano to be the most peaceful state in Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime.

“All what I know as of today Kano is the most peaceful state in the federation, and this is not by chance.

“There must be some security measures that we have taken, like full cooperation among the security agencies in Kano state,” said Mr Ganduje on Monday while addressing journalists in Abuja.

Disclosing the state’s security architecture, he stated, “We introduced the Command and Control Centre; the CCTV where we are viewing the whole metropolitan Kano, we have the most powerful tracker vehicle, equipment in Kano.

“Falgore Forest where bandits usually inhabit, we said no, not in Kano state. We established a military training ground in Falgore Forest, and therefore bandits cannot inhabit it.”

Mr Ganduje further outlined his government’s measures to maintain security to include securing the border between Kano and Kaduna.

“Our border with Kaduna, we have a forest and where we are establishing RUGA programme. We discussed with nomadic Fulani. They agreed to be settled there.

“In fact, other Fulani are even coming.”

In conjunction with Islamic Bank, Mr Ganduje added that the state government concluded arrangements to build dams, an artificial insemination centre, a veterinary clinic, and a school for the herders’ children to make them comfortable.

Explaining, Mr Ganduje stated, “We also established a security training institute where we are training our young men and women for community policing. Even yesterday, I graduated 200, while 500 are under training there, with the advice of the security agencies in Kano.

“So all these efforts are in order to keep Kano in the peace, apart from other policies in education, free and compulsory education, reforming the Almajiri system, what we have done to the health sector, and so many other things. But this one is left for the people to say.”

(NAN)