Masari cancels talks with bandit, commanders return 10 AK-47 rifles
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Wednesday reiterated his charge to security agencies to be ruthless with bandits terrorizing residents of the state, as well as neighboring Kaduna and Zamfara states.
He spoke when heads of security agencies in Katsina brought two repentant bandit commanders from Illela village in the Safana Local Government Area. The leaders also returned 10 AK-47 rifle.
The two bandit leaders, Sale Tarwa and Muhammed Maidaji, who returned eight AK-47 and two AK-47 respectively, were presented before the governor by the state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Sanusi Buba, and his colleagues from the 17 Brigade, Katsina, the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Masari said, “we are no more going to negotiate with them. But if on their volition, they decide to renounce their violent criminal ways and embrace peace, we are ready to listen to them.
“Even then, they must surrender all the arms and ammunition in their possession, otherwise they remain enemies to be dealt with accordingly as far as we are concerned”.