Dikko Radda, governor of Katsina, says about 90 percent of bandits terrorising the state are neither strangers nor outsiders.
Speaking on Tuesday on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a Channels
Television programme, Radda said insecurity remains a major obstacle to
meaningful development in Katsina.
He said while governors serve as security chiefs in their
states, the army and police operate independently.
The governor said to bolster security efforts, the state
created a local outfit composed of youths drawn from areas affected by
banditry.
“These boys know the terrain better, they know those people
better,” he said.
“Most of the perpetrators of these banditry are from our own
area. They are not aliens. Ninety-something percent of them, we know their
fathers, their grandfathers, and they are living with us.”
He restated the importance of involving locals in the fight
against banditry.
“So this situation requires local involvement, and that was
why we created this outfit, so that people at the local level can provide us
with information,” Radda added.
“They can lead the fight to the enclaves of the bandits
because they know the terrain better, and they can fish out informants living
among us, giving information to the bandits and those that provide logistic
support to the bandits.
“Without unbundling that, you would not be able to fight
insecurity successfully.”
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