Katsina Leaders Meet On Security Challenges

A closed-door high-level consultation connected security, governance and development, hosted by Governor Malam Dikko Umaru Radda connected Sunday, ended with a beardown amusement of enactment for the administration’s anti-banditry strategy and sweeping betterment agenda.

In a connection issued aft the meeting, the authorities said the league held astatine Government House, Katsina, brought unneurotic apical governmental figures, information veterans, accepted rulers, academics, and concern leaders to reappraisal progress, measure lingering challenges, and illustration a way to lasting peace.

According to the communique signed by the commissioner for Information and Culture, Dr. Bala Salisu Zango, and director-general of the Media Directorate, Maiwada Dammallam, participants commended Governor Radda’s visionary enactment and singular achievements successful security, infrastructure, education, agriculture, and healthcare.

Deputy Governor Faruk Lawal Jobe, successful his briefing to the gathering, outlined cardinal milestones of the “Building Your Future” policy, including: 35,903 jobs created crossed teaching, assemblage policing, and section administration, a ₦74.9 cardinal Urban Renewal Project spanning Daura, Funtua, and Katsina, with large roadworthy dualisations and agrarian upgrades, an acquisition gyration featuring 160 caller classrooms, 258 rehabilitations, grooming for 18,000 teachers, and ₦6.18 cardinal successful scholarships for 174,451 students.

He besides added that the authorities provided cultivation enactment with 400,000 bags of subsidised fertiliser annually, 400 tractors, and a women-focused goat-rearing strategy arsenic good arsenic healthcare upgrades with 260 ward-level superior wellness centres, dialysis and diagnostic centres arsenic good arsenic caller pharmaceutical accumulation facilities.

Commenting connected insecurity, the commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasiru Muazu, reported that banditry, erstwhile constricted to 5 section authorities areas, had dispersed to 25 aft the 2015 amnesty collapse.

He elaborate authorities counter-measures: recruitment of Community Watch Corps, vigilantes, and volunteers; deployment of drones and vehicles; and associated operations with the Army, Police, DSS, and Civil Defence.

The connection clarified that bid agreements successful Dan Musa, Jibia, Batsari, Kankara, Kurfi, and Musawa were “entirely community-driven,” with section leaders not the government, engaging repentant bandits.

He added that betwixt January and August 2025, 628 victims of attacks received attraction portion large highways were reopened.

Governor Radda, responding to deliberations, reaffirmed that information remains his apical priority, alongside education, agriculture, health, MSME support, and gross generation.

He announced plans to physique 152 homes for internally displaced persons (IDPs) successful Jibia, paired with business-support packages, livestock, and concern tools to assistance rehabilitate repentant fighters.

The closed-door league drew an elite roster of Katsina and nationalist figures, including: erstwhile politician Aminu Bello Masari, elder statesman Senator Abu Ibrahim, concern mogul Alhaji Dahiru Barau Mangal, emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk arsenic good arsenic ministers, senators, retired work chiefs, elder academics, and leaders of labour unions, civilian nine and the concern community.

The connection concluded with a pledge by stakeholders to enactment with the authorities to curb younker restiveness, cause abuse, and different crimes, portion sustaining the grassroots information structures credited with caller gains against banditry.