Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has ordered the immediate suspension of unspecified number of District and Village Heads in Maradun Emirate, where some Fulanis were killed on Thursday.
The governor issued the order during an ongoing inter sectoral security meeting with traditional rulers, security agents, religious leaders and journalists at the Government House in Gusau on Thursday.
Matawalle said: ““It is sad to note that during this meeting, we have received two different security breach reports from two different areas.
“The Emir of Maradun is hereby directed to leave this meeting, suspend the traditional rulers in which these acts took place and initiate ways to identify and bring the perpetrators of the act to the authorities within the next three days or face the consequence himself.”
He warned that henceforth any traditional ruler in whose area the outlawed Yan sa kai (volunteer security members) attacked anyone whether voluntarily or by taking the law into their hands, the Special Adviser should immediately suspend the affected traditional ruler before setting up investigation.
Matawalle said: “I am in receipt of report that l bought Hilux vans to repentant bandits, which l never did.”
The Governor then asked the Commander of the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Gusau: “Brigadier General Bello, have l ever given any vehicle to even repentant bandits in the state as reported recently by Sahara Reporters?”
The Army Officer informed the gathering that soldiers in the state, including himself, were surprised when they saw the report, adding that the governor had never done anything like that apart from the 200 operational vehicles given to security agencies by the state government last year.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor summoned the stakeholders’ emergency meeting immediately on his return from an official engagement outside the state following recent spate of armed banditry and mischievous speculations.
Its un futunate for Zamfara state where bandits are more important than the citizens,if you’re killed by bandits no case but when you kill bandits you’re in trouble, which type of leadership is this?.