{"id":239903,"date":"2026-01-21T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/totally-unacceptable-adc-slams-planned-release-of-bandits-in-katsina\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:25:38","slug":"totally-unacceptable-adc-slams-planned-release-of-bandits-in-katsina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/totally-unacceptable-adc-slams-planned-release-of-bandits-in-katsina\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTotally Unacceptable\u201d \u2014 ADC Slams Planned Release of Bandits in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"293\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has strongly condemned plans by Governor Dikko Radda\u2019s administration to release 70 suspected bandits currently in custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"458\">The opposition party described the move as \u201cdangerous, unjust, and a grave betrayal of victims of banditry across frontline local government areas of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"681\">Addressing journalists in Katsina on Tuesday, the party\u2019s spokesperson, Lawal Tukur-Batagarawa, warned that freeing the suspects would \u201cseverely undermine public confidence in the government\u2019s fight against insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"1043\">A leaked letter from the Ministry of Justice, dated Jan. 2, 2026, indicates that the state government has initiated legal processes to secure the release of the 70 detainees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"1043\">Signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Abdur-Rahman Umar, the letter requested the Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee (ACJMC) to facilitate their release.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1431\">The state government defended the move as part of efforts to sustain an ongoing peace deal with armed groups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1669\">Tukur-Batagarawa, however, argued that the release would \u201cdemoralise security personnel, dishonour officers who have paid the ultimate price in the line of duty, and embolden criminal elements terrorising rural communities.\u201d He added:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1671\" data-end=\"1916\">\u201cAs a party, we condemn in the strongest terms the planned release of 70 suspected bandits by the Katsina State Government. It is totally unacceptable and irresponsible for any government to free criminals while communities continue to bleed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has strongly condemned plans by Governor Dikko Radda\u2019s administration to release 70 suspected bandits currently in custody. The opposition party described the move as \u201cdangerous, unjust, and a grave betrayal of victims of banditry across frontline local government areas of the state.\u201d Addressing journalists in Katsina on Tuesday, the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,235,2819],"class_list":["post-239903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-bandits","tag-kastina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/adc.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}