Why Banditry Persists

Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has listed the previous government’s nonchalant attitude towards providing basic education to residents and others as factors responsible for youth’s restiveness in parts of the state and county.

He said this when he received the participants of the Senior Course 45th of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji on a study tour to the State.

The governor observed that the majority of the youth don’t have the opportunity to the basic education that can afford them the opportunity to learn skills for being self-employed

He pinpointed that 99 per cent of those engaged in banditry are below the age of 35, and they lack education that can prepare them to become responsible citizens.

The governor also identified climate change as another factor affecting farming activities which are supposed to get the youth engaged, adding that the discovery of petroleum in the country also worsen the situation with less attention given to agriculture by the past leaders.

He, therefore, suggested that special attention should be given to basic education and agriculture as a step to curtail the idleness among the teeming youths in the country.

Congratulating the course participant’s for their commitment to service delivery, directed them to meet with his special adviser on security, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad Katsina to have more details on the security situation of the State.

Earlier, the leader of the delegation who doubled as the director of coordination for the college, Brigadier General Mohammed Nuraddeen, said the delegation was one of the eight teams currently on a study tour of some selected states of the federation.

He said the training offered by the college was not limited to military and para-military personnel from Nigeria alone but from other sister African countries in line with the foreign policy of Nigeria.