The senate has raised concerns over worsening insecurity in Katsina State following fresh bandit attacks that reportedly left at least 35 people dead within 24 hours.
The resolutions followed a motion of urgent public importance on the recent ambush of operatives of the Nigeria Police Mobile Force in Bakori Local Government Area, during which three policemen were killed and two others critically injured.
Leading the debate, the sponsor of the motion, Mohammed Dandutse, said the attacks occurred across several local government areas, with 24 people reportedly killed in Faskari, eight in Dandume, two in Funtua and one in Kankara.
Dandutse warned that the sustained violence was disrupting farming activities, noting that more than 50,000 farmlands had been abandoned due to insecurity, posing a threat to food production and livelihoods in the state.
After deliberations, the Senate adopted the motion and urged the president to immediately implement the planned establishment of a military barracks in the affected part of katsina state. The upper chamber also called on the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to equip the newly established police squadron in the area with at least three armoured personnel carriers to enhance operations, and urged security agencies to sustain coordinated actions to flush out criminal elements.
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