Tobi Adebayo
Katsina State Government has reacted to reports that the Akwa Ibom Government evacuated 38 of its indigenes over security concerns.
The state’s Acting Director-General for Media, Alhaji Al’amin Isah, debunked the reports while speaking with journalists on Tuesday.
Isah said that “insecurity in the state had not reached the level for other states to evacuate their indigenes.”
“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.
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“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 around telling the world that they have left Katsina State because of insecurity have personal motives for making such claims,’’ Isah said.
