*President condemns murders

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says the killings that took place in Katsina over the weekend were done in retaliation of what the farmers had done to the bandits earlier.The police had on Saturday claimed they didn’t know the cause of the attacks.

According to the President, however, bandits had been subjected to jungle justice by the affected communities, causing the miscreants to return to the communities to wreak havoc.

Buhari, however, condemned the attacks, insisting that no one had the right to take the law into their own hands.

In a statement titled, ‘Revenge killings in Katsina State unacceptable’ which was signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President said the authorities must be allowed to do their work.

The statement read in part, “President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest round of attacks on farmers by bandits in Damkal and Tsanwa villages in Batsari local government area of Katsina state, saying that killing people in the name of revenge is not acceptable.

“Reacting to the incident in which many homesteads were razed by fire with many people killed at weekend, the President on Sunday warned that no one in the country has a right to take the law into his hands by the way of self-help or revenge.

“Local communities that catch bandits should hand over the suspects to law enforcement authorities instead of meting out capital punishment, leading to a cycle of revenge and counter revenge.

“The authorities must be allowed to investigate and deal with any breach that occurs. There is no place for violence in a decent society,” said the President.”

Buhari prayed that God would comfort families that have lost loved ones in the attacks and repose the souls of the victims.

The PUNCH reports that about 30 persons were killed between Friday night and Saturday morning in some villages in Katsina State.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Sanusi Buba, had while briefing the media on Saturday, said the police did not know the cause of the killings.

“I still find it surprising. What could have been the motive? These people (bandits) could carry out such a dastardly act? We are, however, after them,” the police commissioner had said.

In Katsina State, the General’s home state begging bandits for peace instead of routing them has become an awkward attribute of governance. 

Even the soldiers, police and other security personnel are as unsafe as the general public.It is a state of hopeless-ness that should have provoked new initiatives, but the regime appears impervious to change.

Racoon:

Even in the president backyard? Anyway, was it not the same man that stupidly told a bewildered nation that "the activity of Bandits/terrorists have surprised me"? And what have Mr.President/APC government, the Nigerian military done about all the injustice, senseless maiming, bloodshed and killings across the nation?

funny country �

Gov.Masari and other NW governors were negotiating with bandits just as Mr.President is even recycling BH terrorists as repented, rehabilitated and deradicalized killers.Make una continue.Karma is a bitch.

Deputy1111:
I strongly believe Nigeria will surely overcome this challenge, ...and those who led us into this will not end prosper.

festus2001:
Nigeria is still going to be Okay. Those who gather together and say this country won't have peace, God will uproot and silent them in Jesus name.
This country is a great nation.
Killings of innocent people everyday in this country will be end in Jesus name. And those who are behind all these things, God will scatter and destroy there Plans against this nation.
God bless Nigeria.