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The Katsina State government has announced plans to provide industrial tools for repentant bandits and build 152 houses for displaced families in Jibia Local Government Area as part of its social reintegration and development agenda.

Governor Dikko Radda made the pledge on Sunday during a high-level consultation meeting on security, governance, and development, according to a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Dr. Bala Zango, and the Director-General Media to the Governor, Maiwada Dammallam.

Radda explained that the package would include housing, business support, cattle, and industrial equipment aimed at preventing violence relapse and supporting displaced households. He emphasized that security remains central to his administration’s blueprint, alongside education, agriculture, healthcare, small business growth, and revenue generation, while noting his openness to constructive criticism.

Deputy Governor Faruk Lawal-Jobe added that the government had created 35,903 jobs across different sectors through its Building Your Future policy. These jobs, he said, include teacher recruitment, appointment of ward heads, and the engagement of vigilantes, hunters, and religious leaders in peacebuilding initiatives.

Highlighting infrastructure investments, Lawal-Jobe said the Urban Renewal Project covering Daura, Funtua, and Katsina Senatorial Districts had cost N74.9 billion, including construction of the 24-kilometre Eastern Bypass, several dual carriageways, and key rural roads.

He also outlined achievements in education—160 new classrooms, rehabilitation of 258 others, training for 18,000 teachers, three new model schools, upgrades under the AGILE project, full payment of exam fees, and N6.18 billion in scholarships for 174,451 students, including overseas sponsorships.

In agriculture, the administration has distributed 400,000 bags of subsidised fertiliser annually, procured 400 tractors, provided 4,000 irrigation pumps, and launched a goat-rearing initiative to empower women and herders.

On workers’ welfare, the government said it had paid N24 billion in gratuities, wage awards, and civil service reforms, alongside large-scale food distributions.

Healthcare interventions include the construction or upgrade of 260 ward-level primary health centres, renovation of general hospitals, establishment of dialysis and diagnostic centres, a pharmaceutical production unit, and securing of international medical equipment donations.

The deputy governor further noted N14.6 billion worth of investments in water projects, including dam completion, irrigation schemes, and conversion of hand pumps to solar-powered boreholes. Land administration has also been modernised, with a new masterplan, procurement of heavy machinery, and N3.17 billion compensation paid to affected landowners.

In the energy sector, the government completed N3.84 billion solar mini-grids, installed 74 km of solar streetlights, restored high-tension power lines, and upgraded community transformers.

Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Nasiru Mu’azu, attributed the spread of banditry to greed, envy, climate-related resource conflicts, and long-standing social injustices. He noted that banditry, which affected five LGAs between 2011 and 2015, had spread to 25 following the collapse of the 2015–2023 amnesty programme.

Mu’azu clarified that peace agreements in DanMusa, Jibia, Batsari, Kankara, Kurfi, and Musawa LGAs were community-driven, not initiated by the government.



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Incentivising terrorism. Why do they never learn? Matawalle, Tinubu's current minister of defence, tried this as governor of Zamfara state, and it never worked. It only increased the rate of banditry in neighbouring states like Kaduna and Sokoto, and the bandits returned to business as soon as the settlement ceased. The government has seemingly now embraced this as a national policy. "Cheesing the bandits."

Which way Nigeria?
Why can't we also have repentant criminals in the South East and South South?

What is MNK still doing in the DSS custody?
What is good for the goose...
Helinus, Yarimo and Seun make una help me complete am.

There's reason God will continue punishing Nigeria.

This is how we reward bad behaviour in Nigeria. Tell me why more people won't take up arms against the people and state in hopes they will be rewarded in the future? Why do we have brains but don't use them?

Nigerians you see what we are talking about? Why will another group not come out as terrorists to get same treatment?

Meanwhile See the most deadliest military and spy agancies on earth, DSS is not among ooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoaboHuaNGg?si=BTGqygUqcJjeJgdU

AMINDA:
Incentivising terrorism. Why do they never learn? Matawalle, Tinubu's current minister of defence, tried this as governor of Zamfara state, and it never worked. It only increased the rate of banditry in neighbouring states like Kaduna and Sokoto, and the bandits returned to business as soon as the settlement ceased. The government has seemingly now embraced this as a national policy. "Cheesing the bandits."

when a governor thinks like this... They blame Tinubu for it
Governor that is supposed to prosecute terrorists wants to compensate them with taxpayers funds.....is it Tinubu that instruct that?

The mindset of our northern brothers is too alien from that of the southerners.....

With this thinking of compensating terrorists with impunity....they don't care....you see why nobody not even peter Obi can change their situation in the north than to let them separate from Nigeria and join their Niger Chad and Sudan neighbors

Benbellamor:
when a governor thinks like this... They blame Tinubu for it
Governor that is supposed to prosecute terrorists wants to compensate them with taxpayers funds.....is it Tinubu that instruct that?

The mindset of our northern brothers is too alien from that of the southerners.....

With this thinking of compensating terrorists with impunity....they don't care....you see why nobody not even peter Obi can change their situation in the north than to let them separate from Nigeria and join their Niger Chad and Sudan neighbors

So prosecution for terrorism now falls within the jurisdiction of the state governments? Federal Security personnels are often present during this so-called negotiations, did they get clearance to attend from the state government? Would the "peace deal" even hold if the Army says it is not a part of it and will continue to hunt the terrorists? Go ahead with anything just to absolve the FG from complacency.

Matawalle, who pioneered this negotiation with bandits is now the minister of defence (which is an unpopular choice even in the North), was he appointed for a "job well done" by the state government?