Southern govs move against Northern bandits
•Order enhanced security at the borders AS bandits from the North push farther toward the fringes of the South, security anxieties have deepened across the southern corridor, stretching from the thick forests of Oke-Ogun in Oyo to the oil-rich creeks of the Niger Delta. The bandits movement now touches strategic boundary points in Kwara, Kogi, Benue, Niger states and parts of Edo State, stirring unprecedented fear among southern communities. From Oyo’s decision to deploy traditional hunters into deep forest belts to Enugu’s adoption of drone surveillance, and from Rivers’ fortified marine security units to Ondo’s reactivation of Amotekun strike operations, southern states are no longer treating the threat as distant. They are responding with a mix of technology, community policing, legislative reforms, inter-agency operations and, where necessary, traditional security structures that draw from native knowledge of the terrain. Urgency Recognising the urgency of th...
