The Katsina State Government said it has spent N4.3 billion on infrastructure, logistics, and security personnel allowances to tackle the wave of banditry and kidnapping in the last 5 years in the State.
Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mustapha Inuwa, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the administration scorecard.
He gave a breakdown of the State government financial support on security through his office as it relates to infrastructure, logistics, and security personnel allowances from June 2015 to August 2020 as follows:
“January to December 2015 (N691,985,088.00); January to December 2016 (N827,449, 214.30); January to December 2017 (N749,415,948.40); January to December 2018 (N590,029,000.00); January to December 2019 (N682,311,000.00) and January to August 2020 (N732,569,230.00), totaling N4,273,759,480.70”.
He added that aside from the provision of office and residential accommodation for security agencies, the State government bankrolled a series of security operations which included Operation Sharan-Daji, Mesa, Puff Adder, Sahel Sanity and Diran Mikiya.
Inuwa further stressed that the unflinching efforts of the State government in synergy with security agencies have drastically reduced incidents of banditry, kidnapping for ransom and cattle rustling in the state.
He also said, over 700 firearms have been recovered from repentant herders and bandits and 34,148 rustled animals were also recovered and returned to their rightful owners in the state.
