The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has advocated community policing as a key strategy for tackling insecurity across the country. The Sultan said sustainable peace could only be achieved through collaboration between security agencies and local communities. “The people in the community, especially the youth, are already in the community. You are able to gather more information through collaboration with the community and through multiple agencies working together in the community,” he said. According to him, effective cooperation between communities and security agencies would significantly strengthen efforts to tackle banditry, kidnapping and other criminal activities.