Alhaji Al’amin Isah, Katsina State’s Acting Director-General of Media, told reporters that insecurity had not reached the point where other states would be evacuating their indigenes from Katsina State.
He stated that the Katsina State government’s attention had been drawn to the report, which had appeared in a national newspaper and on a broadcast channel.
“It has become necessary to let the world know that the story is untrue.
“ One of the people in the report claimed that she was attacked at Jibia, Katsina State, but that the military rescued her and took her to an Internally Displaced Peoples camp in the state.
“Quite to the contrary, we do not have any Internally Displaced Peoples camp in Katsina State.
“Those in the report merely want to extract money from their state government by using the insecurity issue in Katsina State as a cover.
“We are here to tell the world that the story is untrue. The security situation in Katsina State is under control; there’s no escalation to an extent that non-indigenes are being attacked.
“Those people going round telling the world that they have left Katsina State because of insecurity have personal motives for making such claims,’’ Isah said.
Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad-Katsina, Special Assistant to Governor Aminu Masari on Security Matters, stated in his remarks that the Katsina State government had contacted the leadership of non-indigenous people in the state about the issue.
According to Ahmad-Katsina, the non-indigenous peoples’ leadership confirmed to the state government that the whole thing was a ruse.
The governor’s aide called Akwa Ibom to alert them to the situation so that unscrupulous people would not take advantage of it.
