Katsina deploys 1,008 forest guards to fight banditry

The Katsina State Government has deployed 1,008 recently trained wood guards to assistance combat banditry, terrorism, cattle rustling and amerciable histrion felling crossed the state.

Governor Dikko Radda announced this connected Friday astatine the passing-out ceremonial of the unit successful Katsina, wherever helium urged them to transportation retired their duties responsibly and correspond their communities and the state with integrity.

He explained that the wood guards would enactment alongside astir 3,000 members of the state-owned Community Watch Corps, the Civilian Joint Task Force, section vigilantes and hunters to amended information successful forests and different susceptible areas.

Radda assured the unit that his medication would supply the instrumentality and different enactment needed to alteration them to execute their duties effectively.

The politician regretted that wood reserves, which erstwhile provided livelihoods for adjacent communities, had turned into hiding places for criminals.

He said his medication had introduced respective information measures, including the establishme...