Bello Matawalle, governor of
Zamfara state, has suspended Surajo Namakkah, the district head of Badarawa in
Shinkafi Emirate council of the state.
Yusuf Idris, director-general on
media to the governor, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.
According to NAN, the district
head was suspended indefinitely by the governor for conferring the traditional
title of Durumbu on a military officer who was arrested for allegedly selling
ammunition to bandits in the state.
The military officer was recently arrested in possession of 20 rounds of 62mm live ammunition.
He was said to have been at the
point of handing over the ammunition to one Kabiru Bashiru of Maniya village,
Shinkafi Emirate, and had allegedly collected an advance payment of N100,000
from bandits.
The governor said anything
capable of breaching the hard-earned peace of the state will not be tolerated.
Matawalle assured residents that
all those arrested in connection with banditry in the state will face the wrath
of the law.
He also warned that henceforth,
traditional rulers must seek approval before conferring traditional titles to
avoid unnecessary embarrassment to the government and the traditional
institution.
The governor said the involvement
of some security personnel in banditry is saddening, adding that it will
sabotage ongoing operations and make it impossible to end banditry in the
country.
“The nation will not defeat the
criminals with such bad eggs within the security architecture,” he said.
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