{"id":81110,"date":"2026-01-02T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81110"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:02:01","slug":"group-backs-lawal-rejects-call-to-revive-yaris-security-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/02\/group-backs-lawal-rejects-call-to-revive-yaris-security-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Backs Lawal, Rejects Call to Revive Yari\u2019s Security Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A civil society coalition has rejected calls for the Zamfara State government to revive security policies from the administration of former governor Abdul\u2019aziz Yari, urging a shift toward strategic reforms instead of what it termed outdated approaches.<br \/>\nThe Arewa Coalition for Peace, Reform and Good Governance (ACPRGG) commended Governor Dauda Lawal for what it described as deliberate and reform-driven efforts to tackle insecurity, saying Zamfara inherited a weakened security architecture from previous administrations.<br \/>\nIn a statement issued Friday in Kaduna, the group\u2019s president, Alhaji Sadiq Mahmoud, said recent attacks, including a suspected bomb blast on the Yar\u2019Tasha\u2013Dansadau road in Maru Local Government Area, reflected long-standing security failures that predated the current government.<br \/>\nMahmoud argued that strategies employed during Yari\u2019s tenure neither curbed banditry nor protected communities, warning that calls to revive them ignored past lessons. The coalition praised Lawal\u2019s emphasis on intelligence-led operations, collaboration with federal security agencies and community engagement.<br \/>\nIt urged residents to remain vigilant and avoid politicising insecurity, stressing that sustainable peace requires time and collective action. Security agencies, the group noted, are continuing investigations into the Maru road incident as efforts to stabilise the area continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A civil society coalition has rejected calls for the Zamfara State government to revive security policies from the administration of former governor Abdul\u2019aziz Yari, urging a shift toward strategic reforms instead of what it termed outdated approaches. The Arewa Coalition for Peace, Reform and Good Governance (ACPRGG) commended Governor Dauda Lawal for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81112,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81110\/revisions\/81112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}