Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State says Nigeria has become economically attractive to kidnappers and bandits within the Sahel region of the continent.
The governor who on Wednesday was on Channels Television’s Politics Today strongly opposed the idea of granting blanket amnesty to the bandits, stating that the idea is enabling the miscreants to continue with their crimes.
Masari argued that the security situation in the country has improved since the All Progressives Congress took the reigns.
“When we started in 2015 in the North-West, it was cattle-rustling. Gradually, it now developed into banditry, rape, kidnappings. When all that they (bandits) can steal from the villagers along the fringes finished, they moved to the rustling of goats, sheep, and even chicken.
“What we ought to do and what the government have to do now is (about) excessive-profile kidnapping. In my kingdom, they abducted four loved ones of very senior authorities officers. When they can not get some thing to maintain themselves, they lodge to high-profile kidnappings for cash in towns and cities. That is the hazard, this is something we ought to work difficult to prevent,” the governor opined.
Masari also kicked towards the intervention of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi in quelling the banditry activities in the northwest.He wondered the cleric’s know-how on protection problems.
“Was he there? What did he know about what we did in Kaduna? I project Gumi to come and tell us if he knows what we did in Kaduna,” the governor requested in reaction to Gumi’s stance on how the kingdom authorities have to take care of banditry.
Speaking in addition on why he does now not help Sheikh Gumi’s intervention, Masari said the cleric did no longer pass approximately it the proper way.
“I assume him to, to start with, preach to them (the bandits), the implication of killing harmless humans and also the implication of abducting human beings and its outcomes. That is what I anticipate a priest first and important to do,” the governor mentioned.
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