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Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State has said that the State Government volition not question dialog with bandits terrorising immoderate parts of the state, but is acceptable to invited peace.
Radda said this portion inaugurating 100 further Community Watch Corps (C-Watch) successful Katsina connected Wednesday.
He said that erstwhile his medication launched the C-Watch inaugural astir 2 years ago, “the authorities was successful uncharted territory, the learning curve was steep, and the uncertainty was high.
“We were a caller medication with the arduous task of bringing bid and information to galore parts of the state.
“The lone happening I was definite astir was my administration’s determination to bring an extremity to banditry.
“I campaigned connected it, and the spot of the radical was not going to beryllium forsaken.
“The headlines accidental the Katsina State Government was negotiating with bandits, but that was acold from reality.
“I person publically maintained that the authorities volition not negociate with bandits but ever invited peace,” the politician said.
According to him, ‘Katsina Model’ is simply a afloat community-driven approach, allowing members of affected communities to initiate and negociate bid pacts with repentant bandits, who hold to laic down their arms.
“The relation of the State Government is to promote and enactment the bid process portion maintaining instrumentality and bid successful these communities.
“Our absorption is to guarantee that communities that bask bid besides payment socio-economically, giving our radical a dignified existence,” helium said.
The politician highlighted the occurrence of the assemblage bid accord initiative.
He said that Jibia had enjoyed 8 months without a large attack, portion Batsari had recorded 7 months of uninterrupted peace.
“Other section governments, specified arsenic Danmusa, Safana, Faskari, and Sabuwa, person besides witnessed comparative calm since adopting the initiative,” Radda said.
He affirmed that kinetic measures by national information agencies stay captious to Katsina’s wide information architecture.
“This ceremonial is impervious that the State Government volition not relent successful warring insecurity and banditry wherever they exist.
“Those who privation to instrumentality to transgression volition look the afloat unit of the law,” helium said.
Earlier successful a remark, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr Nasir Mu’azu, said that the politician had greatly reduced insecurity successful the state.
“No doubt, helium saw, helium analysed, and helium conquered, utilizing a homegrown inaugural of assemblage approach, wherever young able-bodied men from their assorted communities were selected, screened, trained, and deployed to service arsenic the archetypal enactment of defence to their communities,” Mu’azu said.
He further said that the ceremonial “marks the 3rd signifier of the C-Watch training, aft the archetypal successful October 2023 and the 2nd successful November 2024”.
Mu’azu further disclosed that the recently trained officers would beryllium deployed to Kankia and Dutsin-Ma Local Government Areas, with 50 officers assigned to each.
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