Garba Shehu, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicty, has said some traditional rulers are benefitting from banditry in Katsina State.
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Shehu, who spoke on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday, alleged that the traditional rulers help bandits escape when security agencies are planning attacks, TheCable reports.
Bandits have killed several persons and rustled animals in Katsina in recent times, despite constant bombardment by the Nigerian air force.
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He said: “It is not that we are making direct accusations on anyone but it is also true that even in the president’s native state of Katsina, some traditional rulers have been found complicit in collaboration with the bandits to harm their own people.
“In neighbouring Zamfara, emirs and district heads, quite a number of them have been swept out of office. The thing is there are beneficiaries of whatever rotten system you have.
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“In neighbouring Zamfara, emirs and district heads, quite a number of them have been swept out of office. The thing is there are beneficiaries of whatever rotten system you have.
“At some point, the Nigerian Air Force had to put a number of aircraft in Katsina, they are still there. In the early part of that operation attacking Zamfara which then was the epicentre.
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“They realised that once aircraft took off from Katsina airport, before it got to Zamfara for operation, telephone calls would have been made and targets would have disappeared. In the end we were forced to be flying from distant places like Kaduna and Kano in order to undertake operations in Zamfara.”
The presidential spokesperson also said Buhari does not have the solutions to all the problems facing the country.
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“All of us as citizens have a duty to the nation to provide information to our armed forces,” he added.
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