Katsina making headway in fighting crimes — Commissioner

The Katsina Government says it is recording huge successes in the ongoing fight against criminality despite the recent attack on traders in Danmusa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr Nasiru Muazu-Danmusa, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Katsina.

He said that there has been a remarkable progress in the fight against cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality since inception of the administration of Gov. Dikko Radda.

“The problem has now reduced to about 60 per cent from the reliable information we have been receiving across the state.

“That is why the terrorists resorted to using other ways in perpetuating their heinous acts,” he said.

“We condemned what happened in Danmusa LGA where the bandits attacked traders on their way to Yantumaki market from Maidabino,” he added.

“They laid ambush against the traders, killing at least six persons and injuring others, including two of the security personnel escorting the traders,” he said

He, however, revealed that the bandits also suffered heavily during the attack as many of them were neutralized.

“It was reliably gathered that no fever than 16 of the terrorists were killed at the scene by security operatives during the encounter and many escaped with gunshot wounds,” he said.

The commissioner, therefore, warned residents in the local communities against harboring criminals, saying whoever was found wanting would not be spared.

“It is unfortunate and unpatriotic that some people supply information about their communities to the terrorists,” he said.