By; MOHAMMED KAWU, Bauchi
Members of the security committee in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi state rose up from their quarterly meeting with a resolve that every ward, village and district head should submit a monthly security report about his domain to the Local Government Council.
The resolution, according to the meeting, is aimed at checking incessant cases of harboring strange people in the ward, village and district areas in order to stem the rate of crimes being perpetrated by those undesirable elements.
The meeting, headed by the Alkaleri Local Government Head of Administration who also oversees the office of the council chairman, Engr. Buba Dada explained that each ward head should at the end of every month submit security report about his area to his superior traditional ruler, and subsequently to the Local Government Council.
The security reports emanating from the wards, village and district levels, the meeting resolved, will finally be made available to security operatives manning the Local Government Area that comprised Police, Army, SSS, NSCDC, Immigration, among others, for their operational needs.
Engr. Buba Dada expressed dismay at a situation whereby some ward and village heads harbor strange people for a token thereby giving them pieces of land and farmland to deceptively build houses and farm for livelihood while perpetrating despicable activities that jeopardizes the security condition of the people generally.
He explained that as a result of such negative tendencies of ward and village heads giving or letting pieces of lands or farmlands to strange people, especially on Alkaleri / Gombe boarder areas, a lot of litigations now hold sway at various courts of justices in the state.
The council acting chairman observed that there exists scrambles or grasps for lands by people living along boarder villages especially by those from Gombe exits in anticipation for favourable compensation payment by companies now engaged in oil exploration in the areas that formed part of the Benue Trough.
The meeting also learnt about unpatriotic attitudes by members of some associations in Kukkuki village area who collect reasonable amounts of money from illegal miners exploiting the vast mineral resources the area was endowed with thereby depriving the government of the much needed revenues.
Engr. Buba Dada therefore warned against such unpatriotic acts by unscrupulous people or associations, saying the solid minerals the area was endowed with is the fashionable property of the central government, whereas the state and local government collect royalties.
Dada also warned traditional rulers in the area that the instrument of power does not rest in their palaces for them to indiscriminately allocate lands to undesirable people or their cronies for self-aggrandizement.
He stressed the need for the traditional rulers to cooperate with security agencies in the area towards providing a crime-free society for the overall socio-economic and political transformation of the state and the country at large.
