The Katsina state government says it will lift the ban on telecommunications services in the remaining seven affected local government areas, LGA, by January 2021.
The governor, who revealed this during a media parliament with journalists on Tuesday in Katsina, urged residents to do everything possible to protect their areas from bandit attacks.
Recall that recently the state government lifted the ban on telecommunications services in 10 of the 17 LGAs in the state that until then suffered from banditry.
He commended the efforts of all security agencies, especially watchdog groups, to fight bandits.
Mr. Masari pointed out that the guards travel from one community to another in order to protect the communities.
The governor also advised people to defend their communities and also give values all the necessary support, especially by giving them correct information about criminals.
The governor urged the people of the different communities to support the local vigilance groups with the necessary weapons so that they could defend them in case of any attack.
NAN also recalls that the governor recently said that banditry must be collectively defeated in the affected northern states before 2023, when the mandate of the various administrations will come to an end.
The governor, who gave the guarantee by signing the state-approved takeover bill for 2022, said there is no going back in the fight against bandits.
According to him, bandits are well known in their communities and should be eliminated.
“We must prepare to fight as individuals, to fight bandits because they are evil and represent evil. We must not back down from this fight.
“We assumed power under a serious security threat in 2015, and by God’s grace we will not hand this country over to the next generation of leaders under this condition. We must restore normalcy.
“We inherited the government with the security challenges and we must end it and hand over the state to our successors without the same problem.
“We must control and dominate our environment.
“There are two advantages that we have, numbers and technology. When you put the two together, we will restore normalcy. It is not beyond us to do that, ”Masari said.
