By Ahmad Tijjani Abdul Kano
Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, the Presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) over the weekend promised to increase the population of Nigeria security personnel by 400 percent if voted in to power 2023.
Kwankwaso who spoke in Dutse, the Jigawa state capital explained that the current number of all the security personnel is grossly inadequate.
Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso said “the numbers of Nigerian police, Military, Department of Security Service, Nigerian Civil and Security Defense Corps and all uniform personal can’t mans the security of this country”.
According to him “considering the Nigerian population and compared with the number of security, there is no way that they (securty) can handle crime and criminal activities in Nigeria”.
“God willing when I be came Nigerian president, I will multiply the number of police, military, DSS civil defense etc by 400 percent”, Kwankwaso emphasis.
The NNPP presidential candidate noted that “our plan here is apart from providing enough securty personal, it will also provide job opportunities to our teaming redundant youth and at the same time reduce the criminal activities by those youth”.
Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso also promised to introduce Community Participation Reorientation Committee (CPRC) “this is a new policy which under it we will made a provision of providing some funds to every political ward to be taking care and maintaining emergency and minus problems of all public facilities in their respective areas”.
“The committee members would be traditional and religious leaders, Wealthy Individuals, CBOs, second popular political party head of the facilities eg school, hospital etc”.
We did this in Kano when I was the governor it work perfectly and up to now is there practicing it”.
He further promised to review the JAMB, NECO and WAEC fees, “as parts of our efforts to support and give opportunities to the children of the common man to further their education to tertiary level”.
“We will look for cancelling of the fees and if not possible, we will consider cutting the amount to be affordable to majority, and the few can not would be paid by government”.
Kwankwaso said “Nigeria has enough resources to do that and even more than that. Our target to run a common man friendly government”.
Speaking earlier the JIgawa state NNPP gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Ringim called on the people to vote the party’s candidates at all levels for positive change.
He said “the party’s manifesto contained all the needs and aspiration of the common man”.
Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Ringim told the party supporters the “we developed a blueprint where we take care of social, economic and infrastructural plans and policies to be implemented solve the present insecurity, economic hardship, and host of others.
