Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has identified as part of the problems, the facts that nation’s security forces were not properly armed and largely overstretched as a result of other security concerns across the nation.

The governor, who lamented the growing insecurity in his state, despite being President Muhammadu Buhari’s home-base, alleged that the situation has become so bad that bandits and kidnappers have infiltrated communities in Katsina and recruiting new members with as low as N5,000 along with drugs and other intoxicants to launch onslaught against innocent citizens in the state.

Speaking while receiving the police IG, Baba, at the Government House, who was on a courtesy visit, Masari said security personnel were grossly inadequate to tackle the nefarious activities of the bandits and other criminals terrorising the state.
He explained that security personnel, particularly, the police were not enough to police Katsina with an estimated population of about eight million people, while the police haveonly 3,000 personnel in the state.

Governor Masari claimed that the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) did not have modern equipment to combat criminality, especially, banditry across the frontline local government areas of the state