Sunday, September 8, 2024 -The governor of Katsina state, Dikko Radda, has recounted how a community leader in his state collected money from bandits so they can gain access to kill over thirty persons.
While speaking at a town hall meeting
in Daura on Friday, September 6, the governor said;
‘’There was a representative of the village
head who collected N700,000 from bandits and allowed them to enter his area and
killed about 30 people. There were women arrested, and a teacher serving as
their informant, in fact, almost all the segments of people are involved in
this act.”
Speaking further, the governor appealed to
residents of each community to collaborate with security agents to put an end
to bandit attacks in the state. He said;
“We have come up with an initiative
that for any community ready to defend itself, we will give them necessary
support and training to engage criminals before the arrival of the security
agents. I went to a village, Tsamiyar-jino, where it took me two hours inside a
jeep before I reached the village from the main road. So, if bandits attack
such areas, from the time you inform the security, it will take them over two
hours before they can respond to the distress call. By then, whatever is going
to happen will have happened. They will have killed people and kidnapped
others. I have said several times that the security agents cannot do this work
alone. We don’t even have enough of them. I am surprised at the way we are
dying in such a humiliating manner. We were told that anyone who died in
defence of his family would enter paradise. You see five criminals attacking a
community of 2,000 to 3,000 people, rape daughters, women and abducting others
without any confrontation from the people of that community. If there are 100
youths in the community who confront them, they will not shoot more than three
times without being captured with bare hands. Paying ransom doesn’t even
prevent a hostage from being killed by abductors. Sometimes they collect the
money and kill the victim.”
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