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| "Rt Hon. Abel peter diah (Centre) Speaker TSHA. Hon Charles Maijankai (Second to the right) Deputy speaker TSHA and representative of the security agencies" |
Worried by the rate of kidnapping and other security challenges
in the State, the Honourable House led by the Honourable
Speaker, Rt. Hon. Dcn Peter Abel Diah held an interactive
meeting with the Security Chiefs in the State.
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It was noted in the meeting that, the security of every State
starts with the individual and that the efforts of the
Honourable House are the right step in the right direction.
At the end of the interface, the meeting resolved as follows:
The meeting commended the efforts of His Excellency, the
Executive Governor Arch. Darius Dickson Ishaku in being highly
sensitive to security matters and providing logistics to security
agencies to tackle security challenges.
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The meeting commended the security agencies in Taraba
State for their prompt and effective handling of security
challenges in the State so far.
The meeting lamented the inadequacy of security personnel in
the State who will more effectively tackle security challenges
generally.
The meeting decried the incessant ethnic and or religious
crises in the State, the result of which security energies are
dispatched on instead of trying to contain crime and
criminality.
The meeting also explored the need to urgently attend to the
logistic needs of security agencies for effective security
operations in the State. That, the Honourable House further
commended the security outfits in curbing and napping of any
breach of peace and order in the State.
That, despite the fact that Taraba State is the most peaceful
State in the North-East sub-region, the rate of kidnapping in
the State calls for more effective surveillance by the security
organizations to completely reduce the menace.
That, there should be synergy between and among the security
organizations in the State to check security breaches in the
State anytime it crops up.
The meeting further noted that the security outfit needs
logistics (vehicles) to enable them to patrol the entire State to
check any security breaches in the State.
The meeting similarly called for more emergency and
communication within and among security agents in order to
tackle security challenges in the State.
The meeting particularly emphasized the need for the State to
procure a tracker and other necessary machinery and
equipment needed to combat criminality in the State.
The meeting challenged the Youths in Taraba State to unite
irrespective of party differences and combat crime and
criminality. In this, the meeting believes it can be done through
the exposure of criminals and the protection of their local
environments.
The meeting frowns at the situations where the culprit is
apprehended and handed over for prosecution, yet those in
charge of prosecuting the victim turn around and release the
culprit. That this behavior is very discouraging.
The meeting called upon the State Government to install street
lights within Jalingo and other major urban areas in the State
so as to prevent criminals from hiding in the dark to perpetrate
their heinous crimes.
That citizen should only employ security men from only those
recognized private security companies in the State to ensure
that we do not employ security men that would come only to
survey our houses.
The security chiefs unanimously commended the House of
Assembly for this meeting and encourage the Honourable
House to keep it up.
The meeting also enjoined the relevant authorities to clear the
illegal parking of vehicles and shops along the highway at the
roadblock in Jalingo.
The meeting noted that the Taraba State Vigilante Services
and Neighbourhood Watch Law 2017 is not being enforced.
The meeting, therefore, called on professional security
agencies like the Police, DSS, Civil Defence, etc to be engaged
in training Vigilante groups across the State.
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