The Katsina State Government on Thursday, 10th August, organised a prayer session for a peaceful resolution of the unrest in Niger Republic.
Prayers were also held for general peace in the state and in Nigeria at the Peoples Square, Government House, Katsina.
In attendance at the session were Governor Dikko Radda, his deputy, Alhaji Faruq Jobe, and the Secretary to the Government of the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Faskari, among others.
Islamic clerics and groups offered prayers and recited the Holy Quran at the two-hour prayer session which began at 11.
Radda, in his remarks at the session, urged all Nigerians to pray for the amicable resolution of the crisis in the Niger Republic.
He also urged for full support for President Bola Tinubu and ECOWAS as they move to resolve the crisis.
The governor declared, “What we have been doing here this morning is to pray to the Almighty Allah to see to the peaceful and amicable resolution of the crisis in the Niger Republic.
”We are also calling on Allah to bring peace to our state and help us tackle banditry and other crimes.”
He enjoined residents to volunteer credible information on the terrorists and other criminals to the security agencies in the state, assuring them of protection of the identity of whoever volunteered such information.
