The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has cautioned against ethnic or religious profiling, noting that criminality has no ethnicity and terrorism has no religion.
Disu spoke while delivering the opening address at the North-West Security Summit in Gusau, Zamfara State on Wednesday, where he called for an intelligence-led, community-supported, and coordinated regional response to insecurity.
He urged stakeholders to focus on identifying, isolating, and bringing criminal networks, their sponsors, arms suppliers, informants, and facilitators to justice, irrespective of background or affiliation.
The Summit, hosted by the Zamfara State Government, brought together governors, traditional rulers, security chiefs, experts, development partners, civil society representatives, and other key regional stakeholders to deliberate on banditry, kidnapping, arms proliferation, communal conflicts, farmer-herder tensions, and related threats confronting the region.The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, and Governor of Zamfara, Dauda Lawal, at the summit on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
In his address, the IGP stressed that no security agency, government, or institution can secure the North-West alone, calling for stronger intelligence sharing, inter-state cooperation, coordinated operations, border security, community engagement, and effective early-warning mechanisms.The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, the Governor of Zamfara, Dauda Lawal, and stakeholders at the North-West Security Summit in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
He underscored the role of traditional institutions and local communities in providing credible intelligence and supporting crime prevention.
The IGP reaffirmed the Nigeria Police Force’s commitment to intelligence-led policing, technology-driven operations, rapid response, inter-agency collaboration, and community partnership.
He charged participants to ensure that the three-day Summit produces practical and measurable resolutions capable of strengthening security, protecting vulnerable communities, and restoring public confidence across the North-West.
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