Bandits’ Onslaught on Katsina Puts Residents on Edge via thisdaylive
Francis Sardauna writes on the need for the federal government to beam its security searchlight on Katsina State to end bloodletting orchestrated by bandits and kidnappers
For instance, the latest simultaneous onslaughts on Batsari communities, according to residents, had killed 34 people and forced residents of Kurmiyal, Yandaka, Maidoriya, Tashar Kadanya, Garin Goje, Watangadiya and Dutse Maizane to abandon their villages. He said: “The bandits burnt my wife and three children beyond recognition in Tsauwa. I left the village after the attack on February 14 and I am now taking refuge in Shagari-low cost with some of our relatives without food.
The armed bandits had on February 15, 2020 launched attacks on Tsauwa and Dankar villages of Batsari, where they killed 30 people and burnt many children beyond recognition. Residents said the miscreants invaded the affected villages on motorcycles, firing gunshots into the air and then started moving from one house to another killing people. Shortly afterward, they rode their motorbikes with abducted people and disappeared into the forest.
Sedique said: “The bandits mobilised themselves as early as 6am and burnt down Balza, Gurzar Kuka and Gurzar Gamji villages and Makurachi. The bandits numbering about 100 on motorcycles, also injured many people in the villages”. The marauding bandits had on April 12, 2020, also massacred 11 local hunters in Dajin Giwa forest of Kankara Local Government Area, injuring five others.
Governor Aminu Bello Masari, while speaking on renewed attacks by bandits in the state, lamented that the state was under siege again by bandits and kidnappers. The governor who affirmed that the state was in a serious and desperate condition considering the resurfacing of banditry and kidnapping said food shortage might engulf the state following the inability of farmers to access their farmlands.
Meanwhile, the evolving strategies put in place by Governor Masari aimed at tackling bloodletting and the heinous activities of armed bandits and kidnappers cannot be overemphasised. Accordingly, agreements were reached between the state government and the bandits. These agreements include the release of their members detained by security operatives by government, the release of all kidnapped persons in their custody as well as to surrender their arms and ammunition to security agencies.
Despite the rapprochement between the state government and the hoodlums, banditry, and kidnapping resurfaces between November and December 2020 in Dutsin-Ma, Danmusa, Safana, Batsari, Sabuwa, Faskari, Kankara, Dandume, and Kurfi.
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