By Abubakar Salihu, Katsina
Determined to ensure it has defeated the ongoing activities of bandits in the state, Katsina State government has announced that it has deported no fewer than 27,000 people back to their respective homes and villages resulting in the total shut down of all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp across the state.
The state Commissioner for Youths and Social Development, Alhaji Sani Danlami revealed this while briefing Newsmen in Katsina, he named of the closed down IDPs camps as Dandume, Faskari, Kankara, Batsari, Jibia, ATC Katsina and the less privileged home Katsina, where banditry attack victims were accommodated.
According to the commissioner, the government has assisted the displaced persons to go back to their villages in order to continue with their lives as peace has gradually come back. “Today in Katsina State, we don’t have a single person in our internally displaced persons camps”.
“We are aware that, there are some people who are roaming the streets claiming to be displaced persons,” he said.
Hon. Danlami explained that the government glared on such persons privileged to be internally displaced persons, added that the state government will not fold its arms and allow some disgruntled elements to tarnish its image.
He further explained that the state government is always ready to continue to support the IDPs with all necessary logistics and foodstuff so that they can continue with their normal lives in their villages, appealed to the people in the grassroots to continue prayers for God’s intervention to the numerous problems facing them.