Bandits are my kinsmen, says Masari, Katsina gov

Masari, who was a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Monday, added that it was common knowledge among northerners but bowed not to be deterred from saying the obvious.

Identifying the bandits that have practically made life hell for the North-west region, the governor and former speaker of the House if Representatives said: “They are the same people like me, who speak the same language like me, who profess the same religious beliefs like me.

“So, what we have here on the round are bandits; they are not aliens, they are people we know, they are people that have been living with us for 100 of years.

“The infiltration we have from some West African countries and North African countries are also people of the Fulani extraction.

“Majority of those involved in this banditry are Fulanis whether it is palatable or it is not palatable but that is the truth. I am not saying 100% of them are Fulani but the majority of them are, and these are people who live in the forest and their main occupation is rearing of cattle.”