Bandits killing people ’re not Muslims, Buhari tells Katsina IDPs

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has sympathised and commiserated with internally displaced persons (IDP’s) in eight local governments of Katsina State, who were displaced by armed banditry.

The President said the bandits that have been killing people should not claim to be true Muslims.

Buhari, who visited the victims on Wednesday in Batsari Local Government Area, said they deserved sympathy from the government and other well-meaning Nigerians.

Buhari was at the camp to sympathise with the victims from Batsari, Safana, Danmusa, Kankara, Jibiya, Sabuwa, Faskari and Dandume local government areas.

“I am here to sympathise with the entire people of the state over the unfortunate incidents that have been claiming lives of innocent people,” he said.

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“Islam did not give individuals the right to kill others without following due process in the court of law.

“The Federal and states government will do everything possible to eradicate all forms of insecurity in the nation as soldiers and police have been given all the necessary support by the government.

“We are doing our best to checkmate the activities of armed bandits and insurgents in the country.”

Governor Aminu Masari said: “We have assembled some of the victims, and their representative comprising their traditional, religious and community leader before the President.

“The communities living along the fringes of Rugu Forest across these eight LGAs had to contend with series of recurring incidents of armed bandits,” he said.

The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir, called on the rural people not to hoard information’s about the bandits.

Kabir advised the rural people to always pass information about the armed bandits to their traditional rulers or the security agencies for action.

Also on Wednesday, Buhari inaugurated a 32-kilometre Shinkafi-Yandaki-Gafia-Abdallawa-Dankaba road project constructed by the Katsina State Government to boost transportation and alleviate the sufferings of farmers in the state.

The road project, which was awarded in October 2017 and completed in April this year, is expected to cater to 15 communities in Katsina and Kaita local government areas.

Buhari described road networks as the major means of transportation in Katsina State.

He said: “We all know that the economy of Katsina State is agrarian; our wealth is farming and livestock rearing, hence the need to open it up through and across all communities.”