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By Emmanuel Adeleke
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a high-level delegation, made up of heads of the nation’s intelligence and security services, to Sokoto and Katsina States, over the incessant activites of bandits in the York states.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement, on Friday.
According to the statement, the President is expecting an immediate situation report and recommendations on actions to follow to effectively deal with the “worrying situation.”
The delegation led by the National Security Adviser, Major-General Babagana Munguno (rtd), consists of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba; Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi; Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar and the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major-General Samuel Adebayo.
Buhari had earlier ordered a manhunt of those behind the gruesome murder of the Katsina State Commissioner of Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir.
The commissioner was killed on Wednesday evening at his residence, located at Fatima Shema Estate, Katsina State.
This follows bandits’ attack on travellers on Sokoto- Kaduna highway, which resulted in the death of 23 persons.