Katsina State governor, Dikko Umaru Radda says his administration has adopted a new approach in dealing with the problem of banditry bedevilling the state.
Radda explained that his administration has decided to take attacks to bandits and other criminals’ hideouts rather than the old defensive approach.
The governor dropped the hint when he received the management team of Media Trust Limited in his office in Katsina on Wednesday.
“In the area of security, we are doing as much as possible to bring about some innovations in the security architecture of the state that will help us to mitigate the activities of the bandits and other criminals and also to help us build and rehabilitate those people that are devastated, the victims of criminalities.
“To achieve that, we have created the office of the special assistant to the governor on IDPs and other victims of criminality in the state.
“Our approach this time around is not trying to be defensive but to also be proactive and attacking. Because we would not sit down and allow these idiots to come and kill our people. Since they are chasing us, we will chase back as well, so that we will get our state out of this situation,” the governor said.
He added that his administration had designed some operations “To weed out the Kauraye (miscreants) that are disturbing a lot of people in the state capital.”
