Governor Masari To Lift Ban On Other Telecom Services

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has expressed a plan to lift the ban on telecommunication services in the remaining seven affected local government areas before January.

Governor Masari disclosed this during a media briefing with journalists on Tuesday in Katsina, where he urged residents to do their best to protect their areas from bandit attacks.

The state has recently lifted the ban on telecommunication services in 10 out of the 17 local governments in the state that are suffering from activities of bandits.

He commended the efforts of all security agencies, especially vigilance groups, for fighting bandits.

Masari noted that the vigilantes travel from one community to another to protect the communities.

The governor also advised people to defend their communities and to give the securities all the necessary support, especially by providing them with correct information on criminals.

The governor urged the people in the various communities to support the local vigilante groups with the necessary weapons so that they could defend them in the event of an attack.

According to NAN, the governor said they must work collectively across the affected northern states if banditry is to be defeated before 2023 when the tenure of the various administrations will come to an end.

He said bandits are well known in their communities and should be fished out.

“We must prepare to fight back as individuals, to fight the bandits because they are evil and they represent evil. We should not retreat in this fight. 

“We took over under serious threat of security in 2015, and by God’s grace, we will not hand over this country 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.