"DSS and Police should synergize against terrorism and kidnapping"- Gov. Aregbesola

Governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the challenge of insurgency and kidnapping can be overcome in Nigeria if there is an effective synergy between the Nigeria Police and the Department of the State Security Service (DSS). He stated this when the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House‎ in Osogbo.

This was even as the IGP commended Governor Aregbesola for his giant strides of transforming Osun in the last five years. Aregbesola said that both security agencies must work symbiotically in the interest of Nigeria’s democracy, saying that civilisation is possible only on the basis of security.

He added that the synergy needed by the agencies must be effective to penetrate the ranks of terrorists and kidnappers thus bringing their activities to a halt in the country.

He said: “The Police and the DSS must synergise, they must share intelligence because perpetrators of kidnapping and people who carry out the act of terrorism are human beings. With adequate intelligence, it would be easier to penetrate their ranks and liquidate whatever evil plan they have before they carry it out.

He said: “I am appealing to the two agencies to realise the need to work together in the interest of peace and order, particularly on the issue of kidnapping which is assuming a frightening dimension.

“If their acts have been nipped in the bud at their nascent stages, we would not have the monstrous expression of them as we see now”, Aregbesola averred. The governor, however, used the occassion to call on the Inspector General of Police to provide an additional six Area Commands of police in the Federal Constituency in the state to make nine Police Area Commands.