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Former Zamfara State governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ahmed Yarima, speaks to select journalists, including TAIWO AMODU, on his objection to granting amnesty to bandits and terrorists and how the country can overcome its worsening security challenges. Excerpts
With all the problems bedevilling this country called Nigeria, how do you think we can overcome them?
First of all you need to improve the welfare of the security agencies, the police, the Department of State Security Services, the military, civil defence [corps] and all other people working to ensure peace and secure our people. You have to make sure that their welfare is improved. In fact, not wages and salaries, you have to make sure that their families are adequately taken care of; their future, their education, their health facilities, their retirement benefits. They have to be very comfortable so that they can give out their lives in the struggle to ensure that we are secur