We’ won’t negotiate with bandits —Radda

KATSINA—Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has reiterated that his medication volition not negociate with bandits terrorising parts of the authorities but remains unfastened to genuine bid initiatives.

Radda stated this yesterday portion inaugurating 100 further members of the Community Watch Corps (C-Watch) successful Katsina.

He recalled that erstwhile the C-Watch inaugural was launched 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 extremity banditry.
“I campaigned connected it, and the spot of the radical volition not beryllium betrayed.

“Some reports assertion that the Katsina State Government is negotiating with bandits, but that is acold from the truth. I person publically maintained that the authorities volition not negociate with bandits but volition ever invited peace.”

According to him, the Katsina Model is simply a community-driven bid strategy that allows affected communities to initiate and negociate bid accords with repentant bandits consenting to surrender their arms.

“The relation of the State Government is to promote and enactment the bid process portion maintaining instrumentality and order. Our absorption is to guarantee that communities enjoying bid besides payment socio-economically, giving our radical a dignified life,” helium added.

Radda highlighted the occurrence of the assemblage bid accords, noting that Jibia had recorded 8 months without a large attack, portion Batsari had enjoyed 7 months of uninterrupted peace.

“Other section authorities areas specified arsenic Danmusa, Safana, Faskari, and Sabuwa person besides witnessed comparative calm since adopting this initiative,” helium said.

He emphasized that kinetic operations by national information agencies stay captious to the state’s wide information framework.

“This ceremonial is impervious that the authorities authorities volition not relent successful combating insecurity and banditry wherever they exist. Those who take to instrumentality to transgression volition look the afloat value of the law,” Radda warned.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasir Mu’azu, commended the governor’s enactment successful drastically reducing insecurity done homegrown initiatives.

“No doubt, helium saw, helium analysed, and helium conquered — utilizing a community-based attack wherever young, able-bodied men from their localities were selected, screened, trained, and deployed arsenic the archetypal enactment of defence,” Mu’azu said.

He disclosed that the lawsuit marked the 3rd signifier of the C-Watch training, pursuing the archetypal successful October 2023 and the 2nd successful November 2024. The recently trained officers volition beryllium deployed to Kankia and Dutsin-Ma Local Government Areas, with 50 officers assigned to each.

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