From Abdullahi Ishaq Shugaba, in Katsina
The Katsina State Governor, Malam Umar Dikko Radda has said that 70 percent of bandits live with the people in their towns and villages.
Radda stated this during the 2nd anniversary Special Prayers organized in his honour by Muslim Clerics in Katsina on Thursday.
According to him, the 70 per cent of criminals that live with us in our towns and villages are the informants and collaborators aiding and abetting insurgency by supplying food, drugs,petrol and other essential items to the bandits in the forest.
Radda said that the fight to end insecurity is a collective responsibility, therefore government alone cannot do it, it needed the support of everyone, especially,religious and political leaders.
The governor said that he has never dreamt of becoming a governor but today God made him to be the governor of Katsina state.
According to him, leadership is trust, therefore, he will do his best to ensure that he did not abuse the trust and confidence bestowed on him.by the electorates.
“”People’s mandate is people’s trust,therefore I will do my best to uphold it”
He decried that some parents bear children indiscriminately without training them, and left the future of the children in hands of the society.
The governor noted that it is these children that usually turned out to be criminals in the society because their poor parental upbringing.
Earlier, the chairman of 2nd anniversary special Prayers session organized in honor of governor,Malam Abdulkadir Mamman Nasir commended Radda for fulfilling 75 per cent of his electioneering promises.
Nasir said ,the clerics organized the prayers for governor Radda to succeed in his administration became obvious.
