The Katsina state governor Dikko Umar Radda says banditry and kidnapping will never end unless all the bandits informants, collaborators and other people supporting them were successfully eliminated.
He said 70 per cent of bandits lives within towns and villages as bandits informants and collaborators.
Dikko Radda stated this during the 2nd anniversary Special Prayers organized in his honour by Muslim Clerics in Katsina, the state capital.
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He explained that, the informants and collaborators are those fueling the insurgency by supplying food, hard drugs, petrol, selling of rusted animals for bandits and other essential items from bandits in the forest to people in the towns.
Radda added that, the fight to end insecurity is a collective responsibility, therefore government alone cannot do it, it needed the support of everyone, especially, religious and political leaders and called for prequent prayers for lasting peace to prevail in the state and country at large.
According to him, leadership is trust, therefore, he will do his best to ensure that he did not abuse the trust and confidence bestowed on him by the electorates.
He decried that some parents bear children indiscriminately without training them, and left the future of the children in hands of the society.
The governor noted that it is these children that usually turned out to be criminals in the society because their poor parental upbringing, and call on parents to inculcate moral values to their children.
Earlier, the Chairman of 2nd anniversary Special Prayers session organized in honor of the governor, Chief of Staff Malam Abdulkadir Mamman Nasir commended the Governor for fulfilling 75 per cent of his electioneering promises.
Nasir said the clerics organized the prayers for governor Radda to succeed in his administration became obvious.
Highlights of the events is the Recitation of Holy Qur’an and prayers by some selected Ulamas in the state.