The Labour Party has condoled the government and people of Katsina State over the recent attacks at the Unguwar mosque and households, which left about 32 people dead in Katsina State communities.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Tony Akeni, the LP expressed its condolences to the families of the casualties and survivors of the attacks, calling for stiff measures to prevent a recurrence.
“We also condole the Acting Governor of Katsina state, Faruk Jobe, and other government functionaries of conscience who must be sorely disconcerted by yet another chapter of wanton killings involving 30 innocent Muslims who were shot dead in their mosque during morning prayers, and over 20 others in adjoining homes to the mosque who were locked inside their houses and burnt to death.
“In addition to this had been the overwhelming urgency of rescuing alive 76 other citizens – men, women and children – who were abducted from the environment and herded away into hell by the terrorists after the dastardly mosque killings.
“We, as a party, were waiting for progress on the rescue of these citizens before putting out our statement. Happily, we have just confirmed today, Thursday, August 28, that the mass of abducted Katsina villagers have been rescued”, the statement partly read.
The party lamented the worrisome state of insecurity in Katsina, quoting the councillor representing Almu ward of Malumfashi Local Government Council, Mr Usman Usman, as saying, “The bandits have decreed that the farmers of these communities will only be allowed to enter their farms between the hours of 8 am and 1 pm, after which they must vacate the farms or be abducted or killed.”
Akeni blamed successive administrations in the state for failing to tame the worsening insecurity in the land.
“It is incredibly saddening that the deadly assault on humanity, continued regression to stone age savagery in wide swathes of our country by marauding terrorists and their conscience-dead sponsors in government.
“Yet, no decisive and terminal solution by the APC managers of our country appears anywhere in sight.
“It is even more saddening when you reflect on several factors that ought to have made the Unguwar mosque attack both avoidable and impossible.
“Between 2016 and 2022, Nigeria’s APC administration under late Muhammadu Buhari spent US$9.9bn on tackling insecurity in Nigeria. The national defence budget against insurgency, which was US$2.4bn in 2020, skyrocketed nearly double to US$4.5bn. In 2025, the administration of his successor, Bola Tinubu, jerked this up to an all-time summit of N6.57tn.
“In the equivalent period, Nigeria Police budget rose from N783bn in 2022 to #969.6bn in 2024,” he added.
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