Katsina Emirate removes Kankara district head for aiding banditry

Katsina Emirate removes Kankara district head for aiding banditry | The Informant247

The Katsina Emirate Council has dismissed the District Head of Kankara otherwise called Sarkin Pawwan Katsina, Alhaji Yusuf Lawal over his involvement in banditry.

Although, the Emirate has initially suspended Lawal in April, 201 after he was found guilty of all the charges leveled against him by residents in his domain.

The residents reported him for issues that have to do with sponsoring and aiding banditry as well as frustrating the ongoing efforts to tackle bandits in the area.

The spokesman of the Emirate, Alhaji Ibrahim Bindawa while speaking with Channels Television, said that before the dismissal, the District Head was suspended earlier in this month for allegedly sponsoring the activities of bandits in Kankara, one of the frontline Local Government Areas bedeviled by insecurity in the state.

Bindawa revealed that the Emirate Council has set up a committee which was chaired by the Kauran Katsina, District Head of Rimini. He said after they met with security officials and other stakeholders from the Kankara district, they found the District Head guilty of aiding bandits and kidnappers terrorising Kankara LGA.

“The immediate suspension followed series of complaints by the residents after which investigation was conducted.

“What happened was that the State Government had hitherto directed the Emirate Council to commence investigation into the allegations leveled against the District Head by the residents.

“Upon completion of the investigation, the Emirate found him guilty and submitted its report to the State Government where the Government further directed the Emirate to dismiss him,” Bindawa explained.

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