The Committee set up by Gov. Bello Matawalle to find solutions
to banditry in Zamfara State, has disclosed that over N3 billion
was collected by bandits as ransom from relations of abducted
victims in the state.
Chairman of the committee, Mohammed Abubakar, a former Inspector
General of Police, made the disclosure while presenting the
committee’s report to the governor on Friday in Gusau.
He said that the report covered the period from June 2011 to May
29, 2019.
He said the money was collected from 3,672 victims whose
relatives paid to secure their freedom.
Abubakar said that a total of 4,983 women were widowed, 25,050
children orphaned and 190,340 persons displaced by banditry over
the period in the state.
He also said that innocent Fulani herdsmen lost 2,015 cattle,
141 sheep and goats, 2,600 donkeys and camels to rustlers while
147,800 vehicles, motorcycles and others were burnt at different
times and locations within the period.
The former IGP said, to achieve sustained peace, the state
government should take over all farmlands situated on grazing
routes and adopt modern livestock farming to encourage herders to
remain in one place.
Abubakar said that the committee had recommended unconditional
disarmament and setting up of a judicial commission of inquiry
backed by law to address all forms of banditry in the future.
He said that the committee also advised the government to
partner neighboring state governments to rehabilitate all
interstate roads, to ease movement of security personnel and the
general public.
In addition, he said the state government must give priority to
education and ensure that all children including those of nomads
attend school.
Receiving the report, Gov. Matawalle promised to implement the
recommendations, assuring that he would not be diverted by any
sentiment.
“I would like to make it clear that personal relationship,
sectional, geographical, religious and ethnic interests will have
no role to play in the decision l will take with regard to
recommendations of the committee, especially those that relate to
the recommended sanctions and disciplinary measures,” he
assured.
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