Traditional Rulers In Buhari’s State, Katsina Are Aiding Bandits Kill Thier Own People – Garba Shehu

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, claims that some traditional rulers are aiding bandits kill their own people in Katsina, the state President Muhammadu Buhari hails from.

Shehu stated this while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday, while reacting to the recent attacks by bandits that have claimed a lot of lives and properties in Katsina.

According to him, Katsina traditional rulers help gunmen escape when security agencies are planning attacks because they are benefiting from the bandits.

“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,” he said.

“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.

“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.”

Shehu said the president does not have the solutions to all the problems confronting the country, urging all and sundry to join hands to address the menace through provision of timely information about the activities of the killer bandits.

“All of us as citizens have a duty to the nation to provide information to our armed forces,” he said.

This is coming four days after 48 people were killed as bandits attacked Katsina Again just few hours after protesting over pepeated killings by the gunmen.