The Katsina State government has pledged steong collaboration with security agencies with a view to tackling armed banditry and other security challenges facing the state.
The state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu stated this at a special prayer session organised by the 2018/2019 Forum of Caretaker Committee chairmen for Local Government Councils in the state.
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The Deputy Governor noted that the state government has since 2015 been participating in several joint security operations and provided logistics support to security agencies to tackle cattle rustling, armed banditry and kidnap for ransom in the North-west zone.
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He said these efforts have yielded significant result in terms of reacue of kidnap victims, recovery of stolen animals and arrests and prosecutions the several culprits of various crime offenses.
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Earlier, Chairman of the ALGON Forum, Alhaji Haruna Jaa said the forum organised the special prayer session to seek devine intervention to bring an end to armed banditry in the state which has lingered for almost six years.
The prayer session drew Imams from the thirty-four Local Government Areas of the state where they held long hours of prayer for an end to the incessant banditry attacks in the central and southern parts of the state.
