{"id":50819,"date":"2021-09-27T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=50819"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T16:20:18","slug":"banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna","title":{"rendered":"Banditry: El-Rufai told to deploy drones for security in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Yusuf Mugu, a lawmaker in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has urged the state government under the administration of governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai to deploy drones to end bandit attacks in Southern Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Mugu (PDP-Kaura) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that this had become necessary following the attack on the Madamai community in the Kaura Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 people were reportedly killed by suspected bandits in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is saddening that in this era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) where modern equipment like drones can easily be used to end the attacks, the unfortunate incident continued unabated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plead with authorities concerned to deploy drones, identify flash areas and engage this fearless armed militia that had been killing innocent people in our rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is more worrisome is that the attackers started the operation around 4pm,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people are completely devastated while the affected village and neighbouring communities are being deserted for fear of the unknown,\u2019\u2019 Mugu added.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, however, commended the state government for its efforts in addressing the challenge but urged it to take proactive steps in putting an end to the menace.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the bereaved families and affected community to take solace in God and resist any thought of taking the laws into their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Yusuf Mugu, a lawmaker in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has urged the state government under the administration of governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai to deploy drones to end bandit attacks in Southern Kaduna. Mugu (PDP-Kaura) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that this had become necessary following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1072,1651,96,254],"class_list":["post-50819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-banditry","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-kaduna","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Banditry: El-Rufai told to deploy drones for security in Kaduna - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yusuf Mugu, a lawmaker in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has urged the state government under the administration of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banditry: El-Rufai told to deploy drones for security in Kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yusuf Mugu, a lawmaker in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has urged the state government under the administration of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-27T17:31:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-6151ef26159a3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Banditry: El-Rufai told to deploy drones for security in Kaduna\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-27T17:31:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\"},\"wordCount\":245,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-6151ef26159a3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"banditry\",\"El Rufai\",\"Kaduna\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/banditry-el-rufai-told-to-deploy-drones-for-security-in-kaduna\",\"name\":\"Banditry: El-Rufai told to deploy drones for security in Kaduna - 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