{"id":14319,"date":"2019-01-02T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2019-01-02T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:57:01","slug":"buharis-home-governor-masari-laments-invasion-by-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14319","title":{"rendered":"Buhari&#8217;s home Governor, Masari, laments invasion by bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari cried out over the invasion of the state by bandits, his Katsina counterpart Aminu Masari, has also lamented the invasion of the state by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers.<br \/>\nGov.\u00a0 Masari said this during the opening ceremony of an extra-ordinary security meeting in Katsina.<br \/>\n\u201cThe citizens are on daily basis being harassed by bandits and kidnappers that are on rampage in the state.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Katsina Government organised this one-day joint security and stakeholders meeting to proffer solutions to the state\u2019s current insecurity challenge.<br \/>\n\u201cOur state is currently under serious siege by armed robbers, kidnappers and armed bandits who arrest rural people at the grassroots at will and demand ransom, which if not paid, they kill their victims.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people of Katsina in the 34 local governments now sleep with one eye closed and the other opened.<br \/>\n\u201cOur state is in a dangerous situation. Travelers are afraid of being stopped on the highway and arrested by kidnappers who demand ransom,\u201d Masari said.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14320\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14320\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/download.jpeg-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aminu Bello Masari<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMasari said the situation was so bad that some thieves stole some electrical equipment near the Government House at the Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Katsina.<br \/>\n\u201cI am calling on all stakeholders to come out with solutions that will assist the security agencies to discharge their duties,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe governor urged the stakeholders not hide any criminal, and reveal vital information about criminals during the meeting.<br \/>\n\u201cThis time around, we should be able to make sacrifices that will make our state safe and will allow people to go about their lawful business without fear of being arrested by armed bandits and kidnappers.<br \/>\nNAN reports that soldiers, the Police, Department of Security Service (DSS) and other security outfits and traditional rulers attended the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari cried out over the invasion of the state by bandits, his Katsina counterpart Aminu Masari, has also lamented the invasion of the state by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers. Gov.\u00a0 Masari said this during the opening ceremony of an extra-ordinary security meeting in Katsina. \u201cThe citizens are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}