Informants have been identified as accomplices in last week’s abduction of the retired former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brig. Gen. Maharazu Tsiga.
The Chairman of Bakori Local Government Council, Alhaji Ali Mai-Chitta, disclosed this during an interview with journalists in Bakori.
He lamented that bandits hiding in the forests have formed an unholy alliance with informants residing in towns and villages to facilitate criminal activities.
“Bandits rely on informants to obtain the information needed to carry out their heinous crimes, and Gen. Tsiga’s case was no exception.
“If not for informants, how would bandits have known that he was in town, let alone come to abduct him?” he asked rhetorically.
Although he refused to disclose details about ongoing efforts to rescue Gen. Tsiga along with the eight other kidnapped victims, Mai-Chitta assured that security agencies were on top of the situation.
However, he emphasized that the Katsina State Government has, over the past two years, invested significant resources and expertise to combat the twin menace of armed banditry and kidnapping in the affected areas.
“The governor is highly committed to security; he launched the Community Watch Corps, and the young men have been doing an excellent job in tackling the menace.
“If you had visited here two years ago, you would not have been able to come to this Secretariat at this time. But thank God, normalcy has returned, and activities have fully resumed.
“In fact, I can confidently state that banditry has reduced by about eighty percent in Bakori Local Government Area,” he noted.
COV/Isma’il Adamu
