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Bandits Are Harvesting Our Crops, Katsina Monarch Cries Out
The district head of Batsari (Sarkin-Ruman Katsina) in Katsina State, Tukur Mu’azu Ruma, has stated bandits fleeing from the onslaught in neighbouring Zamfara and Kaduna states are infiltrating and taking up farming communities in Batsari native authorities space of Katsina State.
Based on him, the present onslaught is inflicting hardship and hunger for the bandits within the neighbouring states, forcing them to ransack communities inside his chiefdom to grab foodstuff and different valuables belonging to harmless residents of the realm.
Talking with journalists at his palace in Batsari, he stated many farmers within the native authorities weren’t harvesting their crops because of the actions of the bandits, and in some areas the bandits are the one doing the harvest as an alternative.
He stated the bandits displaced by safety businesses in Zamfara State had shaped totally different enclaves in communities bordering Runka forest and different adjoining forests within the space from the place they arrive out every day to assault harmless residents on the night time, particularly alongside Batsari-Jibia street.
He recalled the latest invasion of Yasore neighborhood the place 11 farmers had been killed and lots of had been injured by the fleeing bandits.
“Because of safety measures taken in opposition to the bandits by the state authorities, particularly the shutdown of telecommunication providers, the bandits are affected by hunger so they’re attacking our communities and stealing foodstuff from residents.
“Not too long ago, they attacked the Yasore community and killed 11 farmers, burnt their silos and homes. After the assault, the criminals stopped those that survived the invasion from accessing their farms with a purpose to harvest their crops.
“Now, they (bandits) are those harvesting their sesame, millets, maize, guinea corn and different crops. It’s unhappy that these bandits killed individuals locally they usually can’t permit people who survived to reap their crops. I’ve knowledgeable safety businesses of the ugly improvement,” he stated.
Aside from Yasore, he stated farmers in Duba, Sabon-garin Dunburawa, Bakin-ragi and Labo communities had been dealing with comparable safety challenges as in line with him residents are discovering it tough to reap their crops.
He due to this fact referred to as for the deployment of extra safety personnel to the realm to sort out banditry and allow farmers to reap their crops.
He nonetheless stated the Safety Containment Order signed by Governor Aminu Bello Masari, to sort out banditry within the state was yielding outcomes.
The Sarkin-Ruman Katsina added that the Masari-led administration had been capable of combat banditry by suspending telecommunication providers in 13 native governments, saying the transfer had helped to chop off communication between the bandits and their informants.
