Gov Masari Says Yan’sakai Security Volunteers/Informants Cause Bandits’ Attacks, Killings in Katsina

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has said that the insecurity witnessed in the state is being caused by the activities of volunteers popularly known as Yan’sakai.

According to TMS Media reports, the Governor said this while addressing the victims of banditry and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Faskari and Dandume Local Government Areas of the State during a sympathy visit to them at their camps.

Governor Masari, who was accompanied by his Deputy, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu; the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Mustapha Inuwa and other top government officials and security chiefs, on Saturday visited Kadisau village, IDPs camps in Faskari Model Primary School and Dandume Primary School respectively. The two camps have a combine number of over 4,688 IDPs, mostly women and children as at the time of the visit.

He said: “We don’t accept or approve Yan’sakai because in most cases, they are the ones that trigger mass killings. Yan’sakai will travel 20 or 30kms from their place to another place and kill a Fulani or anybody they suspect to be bandit.

“When the Fulani people and bandits in the forest come out, they attack a nearest community that was not involved in the killing of the person alleged to have been killed by them.

“It has happened in Kadisau and many other places that we saw massive killings. We don’t approve the activities of Yan’sakai but the vigilantes working with the police is what we are working to make sure that they are properly trained to assist the police before the coming of community policing.”

Governor Masari, during the sympathy visit, stated to that joint security operatives would go after the bandits, as government will continue to work assiduously so as to put an end to the indiscriminate killings and kidnapping in the state in order enable the displaced persons return to their homes.

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