Masari to COAS: Katsina is Under Severe Bandits’ Attacks Laments worsening insecurity in the state Says 10 out of 34 LGAs affected
Francis Sardauna in Katsina Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, yesterday, told the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, that the state was under severe attacks
by bandits and kidnappers, leaving 10 out of the 34 local government areas of the state vulnerable. Masari, expressed worry over the prevailing security challenges in the state, affirmed that the deteriorating spate
of banditry accompanied by kidnapping, raping of innocent women and armed robbery on the state's highways, were afflicting his government's effort of restoring peace and normalcy in the state. Receiving Yahaya at the
Government House, Katsina, Masari said both residents and security agencies must work together to up the ante in the war against bandits, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state. He said the military and
other security agencies in Nigeria needed logistics support and manpower to tackle banditry, kidnapping and other insecurity challenges confronting the nation, particularly in the North-west region of the country.
He, however, called for the deployment of modern technology to tackle insecurity in the country, saying the world has gone into the era of technology, adding that, "with Continued on page 8
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With PDP Elders’ Intervention, Secondus Lives Another Day BoT, NEC set up committee to resolve crisis NWC members know fate in 72 hours Atiku, Anyim, Lamido, Mark, others seek peaceful rapprochement Chuks Okocha in Abuja The intervention, yesterday, by some political elders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saved the embattled national chairman of the main opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, from a planned
removal by certain forces opposed to his leadership. The indication that the elders’ had achieved a breakthrough in their intervention emerged, when Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Diran Odeyemi, who was among
the seven that resigned their positions on Tuesday, changed his stand and withdrew his resignation letter. Even more instructive, it appeared, was Odeyemi’s pledge to work with the Continued on page 8
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