Katsina Emirate Council has dismissed the District Head of Kankara, otherwise called Sarkin Pawwan Katsina, Alhaji Yusuf Lawal for sponsoring bandits
The Emirate initially suspended Lawal in April (last month).
The District Head was suspended after he was found guilty of all the charges leveled against him by residents in his domain.
The most significant charge had to do with sponsoring and aiding banditry as well as frustrating the ongoing efforts to tackle bandits in the area.
The Spokesperson of the Emirate, Alhaji Ibrahim Bindawa, told Channels Television that before the dismissal, the District Head was suspended earlier this month for allegedly sponsoring the activities of bandits in Kankara, one of the frontline Local Government Areas bedeviled by insecurity in the state.
He disclosed that a committee was set up by the Emirate and was chaired by the Kauran Katsina, District Head of Rimi, after meeting security officials and other stakeholders especially from the Kankara district found the District Head guilty of aiding bandits and kidnappers terrorising Kankara LGA.
“The immediate suspension followed a 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.
In December 2020, 344 students were abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara.
The event happened at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, and the students were freed one week after negotiations with the Federal Government as well as Katsina and Zamfara State Governments.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram terrorists claimed responsibility for the abduction, saying that the attack was carried out to rein in un-Islamic practices in the School.
Amid the fear of bandits attacking schools, the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, in March this year, directed that all boarding schools should remain closed.
The State Government further announced plans to deploy security dogs in schools to protect school children across all the public boarding schools operating in the state.
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