‘Bandits Always A Step Ahead’, Sultan Asks FG To Step Up Intelligence Gathering… 

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has raised questions over the intelligence gathering of security agencies in Nigeria following incessant attacks on communities in different parts of the country.

He said that bandits and other criminal elements attacking Nigerians are always a step ahead of security agencies in gathering intelligence, urging the military and other security agencies to step up intelligence gathering.

The Sultan spoke on Wednesday at the 80th edition of the National Islamic Vocation Course (IVC) in Bauchi, where he condemned the recent attack by gunmen in Plateau State which claimed the lives of over 100 persons with several others wounded.

He called on security agencies to be more proactive and try to prevent such attacks.

Lamenting that insecurity had been politicised in the country, the Sultan said it does not have anything to do with religion but that of leadership.