The Katsina State Government has said it will lift the ban on telecommunication services in the remaining seven affected Local Government Areas of the state before January 2022.
The governor disclosed this during a media parley with journalists on Tuesday in Katsina state.
While commending security agencies, especially vigilance groups, for their efforts in fighting banditry, he called on residents to do their best to protect their areas from bandit attacks.
The governor advised the people to support the security agencies, especially by providing them with correct information on criminals and providing local vigilante group with the necessary weapons so that they could defend them in an attack.
Recently while signing the state’s 2022 approved appropriation bill, Masari said that banditry must be defeated collectively across the affected northern states before 2023 when the tenure of the various administrations will come to an end.
“We must prepare to fight back as individuals, to fight the bandits because they are evil and they represent evil. We should not retreat in this fight.
“We took over under serious threat of security in 2015, and by God’s grace, we will not hand over this country to the next generation of leaders under this condition. We must restore normalcy.
“We inherited the government with the security challenges and we must end it and hand over the state to our successors without the same problem.
“We must control and dominate our environment.
“There are two advantages that we have, numbers and technology. When you put the two together, we will restore normalcy. It is not beyond us to do that,” Masari said.
The Katsina state government had lifted the ban on telecommunication services in 10 out of the 17 LGAs in the state which previously suffered from banditry.
