A former council chairman of Maradun Local Government of
Zamfara State, Hon. Ahmad Abubakar has alleged that the State Governor, Hon.
Bello Mohammed Matawalle is silently donating Hilux vans to bandits to
facilitate their nefarious operations in the State.
Hon. Abubakar made the allegation during an interview with
newsmen, pointing out that the recent terror attack on Janbako community, in
Maradun Local Government Area was facilitated by the donation of three new
Hilux vans, which the bandits used in their operation, resulting in the killing
of ten innocent villagers.
“On the fateful day, the bandits, who stormed the community
in their hundreds, with unnumbered motorbikes were confronted with stiff
resistance from the villagers. This sent red signals to the bandits, forcing
them to retreat and abandoning one of the Hilux vehicles, loaded with assorted
ammunition and three rifles,” he claimed.
He further accused the army and the police of nonchalant
attitude, alleging that in most cases they abandoned their constitutional
responsibility, only to reappear after the bandits have killed, maimed their
victims and gone unharassed.
The ex-council boss blamed the newsmen in the State for what
he called “failure to report what is actually happening in the State, but only
focusing on the issue of insecurity.
“Unfortunately, the working journalists in the state have
abandoned the four attributes of the profession which authorized journalists to
inform, attack government’s wrong policies, defend the public interest and
influence good policies of the government.”
However, in a statement signed and made available to newsmen
in Gusau, the State capital by the Special Adviser to the Governor on media and
public enlightenment, Hon. Zailani Bappa, the governor’s spokesman described
the report as a sheer mischief.
Bappa noted that the medium joined forces with the enemies
of peace to destroy the political dynasty of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle.
According to him, “the report may be either due to
carelessness, quackery or sheer mischief; the medium went ahead to publish this
mischievous story, which was obviously sourced from the enemies of peace in the
state without balancing from the side of the Government.
“To disabuse the minds of the law abiding and patriotic
Nigerians, Governor Bello Mohammed used the meager resources of the state
Government to purchase 200 Hilux vans in support of Security operatives in the
state.
“These vehicles were duly distributed to all security
agencies in the state under the supervision of the Inspector-General of Police,
and the beneficiaries included the Military, the Police, the Customs and
Excise, the Immigration Services, the NDLEA, the NSCDC, the FRSC, among others.
“With all the programs of the state government towards peace
in the state, there was never a time it gave vehicles or money to the so-called
repentant bandits as there was no agreement to such. The report was a wicked
allegation and simply a figment of the writers imagination or an intended
machination to discredit the administration of Bello Muhammad and undermine the
peace effort in the State.
“The State government also calls on the Nigerian Military to
require Sahara Reporters to substantiate their faceless and distinctly
imaginary so-called Military officer source of this story because it borders on
peace and is a matter of life and death of innocent citizens or face required
discipline.”
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