Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed Friday said a new security outfit coded Kwara State Joint Action Security Force (KSJTF) would within “the next few weeks” commence operations in the state.

Though Kwara had in the past enjoyed some peaceful moments, recent pockets of violence within the state could make the move by the government a necessity.

According to Ahmed in an interactive event with reporters in Ilorin, his government had already procured state of the arts security gadgets for effective take off of the operations of the KSJTF.

The security personnel for the outfit, the Governor said, would include the Police, the Army, Navy, Airforce, State Security Services (SSS) and Security and Civil Defence Corpse (SCDC).

He said, “Security issue is a national issue. The police is largely charged with the job of maintaining internal security. But don’t forget that the same police had before now suffered long neglect and shortage of personnel.

“In Kwara we had intervene in the area of provision of equipment for the police. It would still not end there, as the KSJTF will in the next few weeks come up in strategic places within the state.

“The operatives are well kitted. We want to put an end to some pockets of violence in the state and this is the best way to do it.”

He nevertheless urged the people of the state to be more conscious of their environments especially “strange faces” around them in order to effectively support the operations of the special security outfit.