SPEECH BY HRH ALH. YUSUF ADAMU AMWE THE CHUN NGAH OF AKWANGA WEST DEVELOPMENT AREA, RINZE

A SHORT SPEECH PRESENTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALHAJI YUSUF ADAMU AMWE (CHUN NGAH) AKWANGA WEST DEVELOPMENT AREA RINZE, NASARAWA STATE ON 27TH DAY OF MAY, 2017 AT RE: GRAND FINALE OF THE INTERACTIVE FORUM ON COMMUNITY POLICING AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVING SECURITY OFFICERS / AGENCIES , FALLEN HEROES, DISTINGUISHED RETIREES, TRADITIONAL RULERS AND PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS REGARDING SECURITY ISSUES. PROTOCOL First of all, I thank you immensely for honouring me with this prestigious award. I dedicate it to my governor, His Excellency, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Almakura, the Chairman Traditional Council of Emirs and Chiefs of Nasarawa State, His Royal Higness Alhaji Mustapha Agwai I, the Commissioner of Police Nasarawa State and his team and all the security Agencies in Nasarawa State for beimg worthy partners. Please permit me to congratulate the Federal Government under president Muhammadu Buhari , the gallant Nigeria Armed Forces and the modern Nigeria Police. They are making us proud by restoring peace and dignity to Nigerians. They are successfully fighting the insurgents and the canker worm-corruption and fixing our economy. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity you have given me to say something about the security challenges facing my community. I have put the story of the security challenges facing my community into a short essay. I have left out a lot of details, some of them not very pleasant, for your imagination Last February a well-known native doctor was kidnapped. The kidnappers refused to take any ransom. A few days later his dead body was found. Two months later, a Chinese was kidnapped from a road construction site. He managed to free himself and escape miraculously. This month the mother and a sister of the member representing us at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly were kidnapped and released only after a payment of ransom. All these took place in my chiefdom. My palace is situated in Rinze which has a large population. Some years back Rinze had a police station that had many police men and women. It had an armoury and patrol vehicles. Somehow all those have disappeared. We now have only one ASP, one Inspector, and one Sergeant. To our dismay, only the ASP has a gun. I have been speaking with Nasarawa State Commissioner of police and the DPO in charge of Akwanga Local Government Area. It seems their hands are tied. I have only the vigilantes who take the advantage of the absence of police to make arrests, detain offenders and even prosecute them. All I want to say is that we need a standard police station with armoury and patrol vehicles. Security is not anything to be joked with. I wish to congratulate the organizers of this forum for a job welldone. More grease to your elbows. Thank you and God bless. Because of the effort made by HRH Alh. Yusuf Adamu Amwe the CHUN NGAH of Akwanga West Development Area of Nasarawa State Nigeria for controlling the security challenging facing his community and maintaining peace in all area of his community the chairman senate committee on police affair presented a certificate of Award to him as the Distinguished Royal Father of the Year 2017 on Effective Security Vigilance and Community Development in nigeria at the National Security Award Recognition for Outstanding Serving Security Officers/ Agencies, Retirees, Fallen Heroes and Public Office Holders Regarding Security Issues on 27th May, 2017 at the Nigeria National Merit Award House Maitama (FCT), Abuja