Zamfara state government has established an emergency call centre for the general public to call in case of any emergencies, particularly on security challenges.
The State Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Magaji Dosara made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Gusau, the state capital.
The emergency call centre 112 is also free of charge and can be called by any citizen from anywhere in case of any attack, kidnapping, cattle rustling, movement of bandits and or criminals.
According to the statement, the call to the centre will immediately be verified, processed and directed to the appropriate security operatives for necessary rescue operations across the fourteen local government areas of the state.
It also advised people to make use of the opportunity to call the emergency call centre to inform government of the emergency situation or challenges facing them to enable the government swift into rescue mission action.
The Commissioner added that, government established the emergency call centre in order to ease and facilitate citizens in reaching out to authorities or security operatives in terms of security breach by bandits and or criminals in all the nooks and crannies of the state.
It may be recall that citizens are apprehensive of exposing bandits and informants due to fear of being killed.
However, with the new emergency call centre, people can now call to tell their ordeal without the fear of being exposed to bandits when they share intelligence.
Zamfara became the first state in Nigeria to established such emergency call centre for security as part of measures to curtail insecurity in the state.
SANI DUTSINMA
