Government of Katsina State is conducting census of communities affected by bandits to provide psycho-social and economic support to the residents
The Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Bello Masari on Security
Matters, Ibrahim Ahmad-Katsina said the rationale behind this gesture was to
consolidate the victims affected by the act of banditry.
Ahmad said a committee headed by the state Deputy Governor, Mannir Yakubu, was saddled
with the responsibility undertaking the census of banditry-affected victims in
the state to make ensure that the victims have not become psychologically
traumatic.
“It is important to come up with a strong measure to help in carrying
the banditry affected individuals along so that they do not feel vulnerable and
change their perception of the situation’’.
He said katsina state has
adopted a very powerful measure to curb banditry across the state and victory
is being recorded.
Ahmad-Katsina said that the new approach to tackling banditry
adopted by government has been recording successes, adding that so far
confidence was built in people to report any suspicious movement to relevant
authorities for proper actions.
‘’The committee has found out that banditry wears different
tricky faces and its discovery would in no small way reduce complexity of
fighting the culprits in their hide outs,’’ he lamented.
Ahmad said so far the state government trained 1,100 h community
vigilantes to assist their immediate communities who successfully caused a lot of
bandits to surrender their weapons.
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