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The Senate, on Wednesday, asked security agencies in the country to deploy drones and helicopters in forests and other ungoverned spaces to identify illegal camps of armed bandits and crush the criminals.
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made this known during plenary while reading the resolution of the upper chamber regarding the insecurity situation in the country.
The Senate also asked state governors to implement the National Livestock Transformation Plan in order to prevent farmer-herder conflicts in the country.
The South-West region especially has been in the eye of the storm of late over the activities of killer herdsmen who rape, kidnap and destroy farmlands with their cattle.