Cattle Rustling Metamorphosed Into Banditry In North West – Masari

• Masari blamed part of the security challenges the region is faced with on lack of education as well as influx of criminals from some North African countries

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has explained how cattle rustling snowballed into the rising tide of kidnapping and banditry in the North West geopolitical zone of the Nigeria.

The governor spoke in Katsina when he appeared on NAN Forum, the flagship interview programme of the News Agency of Nigeria.

Masari blamed part of the security challenges the region is faced with on lack of education as well as influx of criminals from some North African countries.

Masari, who said there were ongoing efforts to tackle insecurity in the state, lamented that the current situation had prevented farmers from accessing their farmlands.

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”Unfortunately, what we met as cattle rustling has turned into banditry and insurgency, which are depriving people, especially those living in the border area of the forests which are very fertile, from access to their farms, drastically affecting their source of livelihood.

“They have lost their ploughing cattle which they used to plough the land.

” This has caused another challenge to our Restoration Agenda in Katsina, but we thank God that we can continue,” he said.

Masari also revealed that the seven governors from the North West Zone had been meeting to work out modalities on how to end insurgency, part of which is the ongoing training of about 500 vigilance members, to be followed by another 3,000 soon.

“We have a committee under the North West Zone because of our linkage in terms of boundary. We are strategising on how to deal with the situation.

“And as I talk to you now, we have 500 vigilantes undergoing training and we intend to take another 3,000,” NAN quoted Masari as saying.

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