Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, who disclosed this yesterday in a media chat tagged: "The Governor Explains," said that the decision was to demonstrate his administration's zero tolerance to criminal acts.

Ahmed said in addition to putting finishing touches to the take-off of the task force, he would provide a fleet of additional 20 patrol vans and other gadgets to the police to complement those they already had, aside regular financial and logistics support.

Speaking on communal clashes and disputes on land in some parts of the state, Ahmed said he would hate to be a governor that would allow lawlessness under any guise to be perpetrated by anybody, no matter how highly placed.

According to him, there are laid down avenues to settle scores which could be either directly to the court of law or reporting to the police as against taking laws into ones hands saying: "Any breach of the law is criminal and will be treated as such in full dose by the government."

Speaking on last week's remand in the prison custody of two tradition rulers over bloody clashes in their communities because of chieftaincy titles, the governor said so long as people take to using cutlass, guns and knives to settle whatever scores, he would not hesitate to decisively deal with the situations as they come.

Ahmed also flayed mismanagement of funds by the managements of some institutions in the state.

The fund mismanagement has led irregular payment of the salaries of the institutions' workers.