Katsina: Communities I allowed negotiate with bandits enjoying peace – Gov Radda

Governor of Katsina State, Dikko Radda, has disclosed that helium allowed communities successful the authorities to negociate with bandits.

Radda said the affected communities had pleaded with him to let them to negociate with bandits successful a bid to reconstruct bid successful the state.

In an interrogation with Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Radda said the communities that negotiated with bandits person been enjoying bid for implicit 1 year.

He, however, noted that helium would ne'er bid immoderate bandit to laic down their arms, stressing that specified negotiations was not his presumption but that of the community.

Radda said: “The occupation that we person present was that erstwhile the challenges were truthful much, the communities approached maine saying ‘Look your Excellency, we person met with those radical and they are acceptable to laic down their arms, we person suffered truthful much, and we are not getting what we request from the information agencies successful word of protection. Sir let america to negociate with these radical if we tin find peace.’ And I said you tin spell up but I volition not beryllium portion of it.

“So they went up and arsenic I talk today,...