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.

https://www.thecable.ng/shocker-zamfara-bandits-have-collected-n3bn-ransom

The problem is that the region they comes from makes them untouchable just like boko boys.

So therefore security men hands are tied.

kai

They keep calling them Zamfara Bandits, pls are they not Fulani or Nigeriens, or Libyans or Chadians.

Buhari and his friends want to finish Nigeria ..Quote me anywhere !!!!! This is the worst govt ever

Very lucrative job.

north stealing from the south since 1902

Buhari is a mad dog with no iota of wisdom and a certified idiot

As usual enriching themselves with south south money. Job well done

Fear North

Is a shame nigerdelta are still drinking garri and fried giant crayfish , while their Commonwealth are been squandered sorry for guys

... negotiating with terrorists...

To get these bandits is not a Herculean task.

Cmanforall:
Baw

Is a Chinese Car Brand.

There was a country

Banditry, Kidnapping and terrorism is a big business in the North now.... God save us!!!

Zamfara bandit.... Na new terrorist group be that one ?

Business is booming


Thanks to the spineless president

No be swear or anything, but you see this bandit and kidnapping of a thing...., it will never end in Nigeria.

Oh yes keep paying your bandits and keep killing our people down here. Now that y'all have found oil, can we divide this country tomorrow? There's no need wasting time.

inside life

I hope the VAT is collected too? Stupid country

See advertisement in disguise. When more Northerners become bandits, just know it was because of news like this. Over 3 billion, yet most of the bandits are still walking around free and the government should continue pretending as if they don't know their hideouts. FeBuhari 2023 will be judgment day for APC federal government in Nigeria. Continue

See what Buhari-led APC government have turned Nigerian into.Bandits/terrorists now have a field day collecting ransom in billions.

Its sad when people use emotions to judge..you blame a man forgetting that he wasn't in government since 2001 when such incidence started occurring based on the report of the committee. Until we finally decide to be unbiased in our views can we truly develop as a nation.

And the government was sleeping bah, when bandits were collecting millions and millions and people were paying and paying and were being kidnapped day in day out, until the bandits were counting billions and have become multibillionaires in a short period of time. Later when Osinbajo flies to America, he will tell them kidnapping in Nigeria is exaggerated. See ehn, it's not a joke, I repeat, I strongly regret voting for Buhari APC in 2015. PDP was a disaster and some of us genuinely believed APC would bring positive changes but las las APC is another disaster like PDP, devil twins. I pray by 2023 majority of Nigerians will wise up and send both PDP and APC packing. We need new parties to take over. APC and PDP are 2 sides of the same evil coin.

I commend the zamfara govt for making peace with this bandits. We see the reason why the IGR of zamfara in the past 6month has rising to almost 250% accordin to recent statistics..

Another national cake sharing. No police or army checkpoint, no egwu eke...

Una go hear am...one nizooria

It is well

Your bedsheets seller is here

Seems it's a thriving business over there.

Apc how market