50 citizens killed in Katsina in month – CNG

While reacting to the recent killing of a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Jibia among others, the Coalition of Northern Groups, Katsina State chapter, described the killing of over 50 innocent citizens in the state by terrorists in one month as worrisome and demoralizing.

“It is quite shocking and frightening to note that “some of our villages are firmly under the control of the bandits where levies or taxes are imposed on our people, subjecting them to further economic deprivation and devastation,” CNG Northwest Coordinator Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi said in a condolence message to the bereaved and the state. Over 50 innocent, defenseless, and impoverished citizens of the state have been killed systematically in the last four weeks, according to the stories.”

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Considering the recent spike in the rate of attack in the state, CNG says it is obvious that “the government and its functionaries have lost the political will and determination to decisively deal with the problems once and for all,” citing the recent unchecked decimation, destruction of lives, abuse and exploitation of women, and extortion of poverty-stricken communities by terrorists in the state.

While decrying the ongoing killings, abductions, maiming and exploitations by terrorists of helpless and defenceless citizens in the state, CNG says it appears that “the Federal Government have completely surrendered prerogative of the use of force to the bandits/ terrorists who now operate parallel governments in villages and communities in the state, where they impose taxes and levies on villages and kill people at will.”

To end the tide, the CNG charged the youth to rise up to the occasion and equally called on traditional rulers to stand with their people over the difficult and scary situation in the bid to combat the menace for the collective survival of people in the state.

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“Communities must work together under the traditional institutions, religious leaders and community leaders are to source for an alternative method of preserving and protecting their lives, properties and communities as our security architecture proves incapacitated and or reluctant to decisively and resolutely deal with the problem,” CNG noted.