The committee set up by Bello
Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, to find solutions to banditry in the state,
says suspected bandits have collected over N3 billion as ransom from relatives
of abducted victims.
Mohammed Abubakar, a former
inspector-general of police (IGP) and chairman of the committee, disclosed this
while presenting the committee’s report to the governor on Friday.
Abubakar said the report covered
the period from June 2011 to May 29, 2019, adding that the ransom was collected
from 3,672 victims.
Abubakar said a total of 4,983
women were widowed, 25,050 children orphaned and 190,340 persons displaced in
the state over the period.
He added 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.
The committee also recommended
unconditional disarmament and setting up of a judicial commission of inquiry
backed by law to address all forms of banditry in the future.
The committee also advised the
government to partner neighboring state governments to rehabilitate all
interstate roads to ease the movement of security personnel and the general
public.
Receiving the report, Matawalle
promised to implement the recommendations.
“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 said.
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