Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State says the new measures
put in place to fight insecurity in the state are working and that the state is
winning the war against banditry.
The governor stated this on Tuesday in Katsina at a
consultative briefing held with the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed, on the security situation in the state.
NAN reports that the briefing was attended by heads of
security agencies in the state, traditional rulers, political and religious
leaders, civil society groups and other stakeholders.
The governor said the suspension of mobile telecommunication
networks in 13 local government areas of the state was yielding fruits because
informants of bandits and kidnappers had been cut off.
He said the demands for ransom which were being made through telephone calls had been made impossible.
The governor said the ban on the sale of petroleum products
at filling stations around the land borders across the state had made it
impossible for the bandits to move freely.
Recall that the governor had directed that only two
designated filling stations be allowed to sell fuel of up to N5000 to motorists
in 14 Local Government Areas of the state.
Masari, who had reinforced the total ban on the sale of
petrol in Jerry cans at filling stations said the state will also implement the
ban on the sale of fairly used motorcycles in some markets.
“This is one source they use in buying motorcycles for their
banditry activities,” he said.
The governor decried the non-compliance to the ban on the
use of “junction motor parks” in the state and directed district heads to join
hands with Police in enforcing the directive.
While justifying his position that bandits had many known
collaborators, Masari said bakers at many adjourning local government areas to
the forest were taking bread to bandits at night.
The governor said some of them do production in the night
and make supplies to the bandits.
He reiterated his position that he would not negotiate with
bandits describing them as “criminals who are fighting no religious and
ideological course”.
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