Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari says the state’s commissioner for science and technology, Rabe Nasir, was assassinated.
Nasir was murdered at his residence last week.
Masari told journalists after he met with President Muhmmadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday that the commissioner was not killed by bandits but assassins.
“It was purely an assassination by unknown killers, which the police and other security agencies are working round the clock to unravel what happened,” he said.
“Because my commissioner was killed by an unknown assassin and not a single pin was stolen in his house, you could see that this was a pure crime that has to be fully investigated for us to know the root causes and why.”
Masari said the states in the North-west geopolitical region need to adopt a uniform policy in order to tackle the insecurity bedevilling the zone, adding that if states continue to adopt different policies, bandits and terrorists will always get away with crimes.
He, however, said the security situation in the state has improved, given the drop in the rate of crime.
