Yari briefs Buhari over Zamfara killings

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, on Wednesday, was a guest of President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa, where he briefed the President on killings in Talata Marafa town of the state.

In the fracas, about eight people were reportedly burnt to death by a mob suspected to be students of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic in the state.

The President had, on Tuesday, condemned the killings and vowed that the perpetrators would be brought to justice.

Governor Yari later told State House Correspondents after meeting with President Buhari that the incident was unnecessary.

He explained that the police and other security agencies are carrying out out their investigations, stressing that the culprits would soon be apprehended

Said he, “The government will not take this lightly, people taking laws into their hands, if you say someone who abused the Prophet should be killed, and you now kill innocent people”

“By the way there is a government in place, there are laws and they are courts where Islamic laws are practiced in Zamfara, so why should someone take laws into his hands? So definitely all the culprits will be brought to book”, he stated.

The governor further said, “I think what happened is unnecessary and it’s not supposed to be in place if not for the act of the devil.