The State Governor, Dikko Umar Radda made the promise at a Public Engagement, 2025 Citizens’ Budget Participation Process and the launching of a Community Development Programme in the Katsina zone, on Friday in Katsina.
“We have come up with an initiative that for any community ready to depend itself, we will give them necessary support and training to engage criminals before the arrival of the security agents.
“I went to a village, Tsamiyar-jino, where it took me two hours inside a Jeep before I reached the village from the main road.
“So, if bandits attack such areas, from the time you inform the security, it will take them over two hours before they can respond to the distress call.
“By then, whatever is going to happen will have happened – they will have killed people and kidnapped others,” he said.
The governor lamented that there were not enough security agents to provide security to all the communities in the state.
Radda lamented that a lot of people were into that act,saying, “there was a representative of the village head who collected N700,000 from bandits and allowed them to enter his area and killed about 30 people.
The governor revealed that his administration has created a Community Security Watch Corps and recruited youth from the front-line local governments.
Radda added that the government provided them 700 motorcycles, 65 Hilux cars and 10 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), in addition to the rehabilitation of others that belonged to the police.
He, therefore, urged the people to intensify efforts in providing information to the security agents for their security and safety.