Radda moves against banditry, approves ammunition for local security corps

By Ogalah Ibrahim

The Katsina State Executive Council has approved the procurement of 5,000 cartons of ammunition for the Community Watch Corps, vigilante groups, and hunters to fortify enactment for information operatives successful tackling banditry crossed the state.

The determination was among respective resolutions reached during the council’s 14th regular meeting, presided implicit by Governor Dikko Umaru Radda connected Wednesday successful Katsina.

Commissioner for Information, Dr. Bala Salisu Zango, told journalists that the determination was designed to deepen collaboration betwixt ceremonial information agencies and section information outfits.

“This inaugural strengthens collaboration with our information operatives and enhances nationalist safety, allowing residents to unrecorded without fearfulness of banditry,” Zango said.

Other large approvals see the procurement of 30-unit hybrid buses to chopped transport costs and trim emissions, arsenic good arsenic the operation of the Daura Western Bypass Dual Carriageway, spanning 11.43 km, with an further 3 km spur linking the Daura–Katsina Federal Highway.

On education, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Hajiya Zainab Musa Musawa, disclosed that assembly approved the installation of solar-powered h2o systems, proviso of instructional materials, subject and method equipment, CCTV cameras, star streetlights, and backup generators for the Special Model School successful Radda.

She besides revealed that a authorities of exigency had been declared connected superior schoolhouse infrastructure, with the archetypal signifier focusing connected rehabilitating 10 of the astir dilapidated schools successful each of the 34 section authorities areas.

The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hadiza Abubakar Yar’adua, announced that assembly approved rehabilitation and empowerment programmes for widows and susceptible women, peculiarly those affected by banditry. These see skills grooming and colony packages to heighten self-reliance.

In the aforesaid vein, the Director-General of the Katsina State Enterprise Development Agency (KASEDA), Hajiya Aisha Aminu Malunfashi, said the authorities had launched a Graduate Entrepreneurship Empowerment Programme to supply brushed loans to indigent graduates for tiny concern startups.

The assembly besides gave support for the remodeling and automation of the State Executive Council Chamber to upgrade from analogue to integer systems, thereby improving work delivery.

Officials stressed that the projects bespeak Governor Radda’s “Building Your Future” agenda, with a beardown absorption connected security, education, infrastructure renewal, women empowerment, younker entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.

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