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Katsina Bandits Gather Walkie Talkies To Beat Telecoms Thutdown – Official



"A latest and most worrisome cross by using the criminals is the located acquisition of Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers by ability of the bandits," the Secretary to the State authorities says


Bandits working in Katsina State are the use of Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers to overcome the shutdown of telecommunications carrier in the state, the kingdom authorities has said.


The country authorities had in September reduce telecommunications networks in thirteen nearby authorities areas it stated are in the the front line of banditry in the state.


But at a press convention Thursday afternoon, the Secretary to the Government of Katsina State, Mustapha Inuwa, stated the bandits have been unrelenting in circumventing the protection measures devised to curb their activities.


“In spite of the successes recorded, however, it is beneficial to word that due to the reality the graduation of the Containment Order, the bandits’ factors all through the frontline close by government areas have been unrelenting in devising new techniques aimed at circumventing the impact of the Containment Order.


“The methods range from attacking motorists/motorcyclists to siphon PMS from gasoline tanks, to ransacking communities and coercing villàges into sourcing PMS on their behalf. A latest and most worrisome skip by way of skill of the criminals is the observed acquisition of Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers by using the bandits,” he said.


Mr Inuwa, who is moreover the chairman of the security committee in the state, cited protection entrepreneurs are, however, on the trail of bandits the usage of the walkie talkie.


724 bandits arrested due to the truth that March, 298 under prosecution

He said between March and September, 480 suspected bandits were arrested, forty two of whom are underneath investigation and 216 under prosecution.


While insisting there has been a discount in bandits’ assaults due to the truth that the Containment Order, Mr Inuwa delivered that from September to date 244 suspects have been arrested with 33 underneath investigation and eighty below prosecution.


Mr Inuwa noted the safety measures in the Containment Order have been taken to strategically tackle insecurity, calling it a baby of necessity.


“The Containment Order is a infant of necessity, and has no longer been put in area to harm or reason hassle to the citizens of the State. The using goal used to be to arrest the rising scenario that used to be becoming a hazard to peace, order and our collective desirable being,” he said.


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