Katsina Embarks On 3 Days Prayers Against Kidnappings And Banditry

Katsina State residents had embarked on a 3-day prayers as led by its Governor Aminu Masari in order to seek divine intervention against banditry, kidnapping and cattle rustling bedeviling the state.
The prayer session kicked off at about 10:00 am today Thursday and lasted for three hours at a Jumat Mosque in the state capital with over three hundred persons mostly memorizers of the Qur’an dominating the session.
As reported by Channels TV, the stakeholders noted that the prayers has heralded the general concern by the members of various communities across the state towards ending the menace. They further described it as a gesture aimed at letting security forces on the ground to understand that members of the public are with them in their bid to oust the miscreants.
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Some of the dignitaries who attended the prayers are The State Deputy Governor, Engineer Mannir Yakubu, the State Commissioner of Information, Culture and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abdulkareem Yahayya Sirika, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Ibrahim Ahmad Katsina, and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Mohammed Lawal Matazu.

Photos Credit: Twitter/Governor Masari