Criminality Has No Ethnicity, Terrorism Has No Religion, IGP Disu Cautions Against Profiling

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has cautioned against ethnic or religious profiling, noting that criminality has no ethnicity and terrorism has no religion.

Disu spoke while delivering the opening address at the North-West Security Summit in Gusau, Zamfara State on Wednesday, where he called for an intelligence-led, community-supported, and coordinated regional response to insecurity.

He urged stakeholders to focus on identifying, isolating, and bringing criminal networks, their sponsors, arms suppliers, informants, and facilitators to justice, irrespective of background or affiliation.

The Summit, hosted by the Zamfara State Government, brought together governors, traditional rulers, security chiefs, experts, development partners, civil society representatives, and other key regional stakeholders to deliberate on banditry, kidnapping, arms proliferation, communal conflicts, farmer-herder tensions, and related threats confronting the region.