Banditry: Katsina tackles a difficult enemy
The attack August 26 on Wurma, a community in Kurfi Local Government Area of State, indicates that bandits are not gentlemen, and are hardly swayed by verbal appeals or other overtures by government. In that assault, various media organs reported that armed men numbering about 100 invaded Wurma at night and went from door to door robbing residents of cash and any item of interest before abducting 49 people.
Before the attack, Governor Masari had reason to believe things were pretty much under control. Following our reporter’s tour of eight most hit local government areas in the state, there were indications that the attacks were on the decline and that normalcy was returning to besieged communities. It was at Batsari that banditry attacks assumed a more dangerous dimension with the killing of innocent farmers on their farmlands, in addition to raping of women and the displacement of several families as IDPs, It is no longer news that about 34 farmers were killed some of whose bodies were publicly buried after having been displayed at both the Emir’s palace and the government house
Most of the apprehended bandits often complain that poverty contributed mostly in driving them into crime.
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