Zamfara mulls new strategy to tackle insecurity

The Zamfara state Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran has announced the state government’s plan to review its security strategy to tackle banditry and other criminality.

Dauran made this known on Monday at a meeting with members of the volunteer security group, known as ‘Yansakai’ in Gusau, the state capital.

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The commissioner said that the new measures would ensure that all unrepentant bandits and other criminal elements denounce their activities or face arrest and prosecution.

He said that the state government is aware of the threats faced by the repentant bandits and members of the ‘Yansakai’ from those who refused to embrace the peace accord initiated by Governor Bello Matawalle in 2019.

Dauran lauded the conduct those who denounced criminality after they surrendered their weapons and urged them to sustain the peace.

In his message at the meeting, Gov. Matawalle, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Bala Maru said the state government would do everything in its powers to sustain the peace in the state.

He promised to support farmers to go about their farming activities in the coming rainy season without let or hindrance.

Gov. Matawalle said that “we have concluded arrangements with the federal government to get more security personnel deployed to the state.”

Secretary of the ‘Yansakai’ in the state, Alhaji Sani Babban-Doka in his remarks, urged the state government to ensure simultaneous aerial and ground surveillance with a view to ridding the state of criminals.

The meeting was attended by the state Commissioner of Police, Usman Nagogo and the representative of the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Gusau.