Appeasing bandits was always impracticable
Though banditry in the North has not substantially subsided since security forces declared war on the bandits last month, the governor has, however, concluded, after nearly one year of trying to negotiate with bandits, that no peace deal could be reached or sustained with the criminals.
Not done, the governor added: “Some people visited me, and as they left, they were trailed and robbed of their belongings. The armed robbers could not go away with the vehicle because it has security lock. In the past, they carried out their activities in the middle of the night, but now, they operate at midnight, 10pm and gradually in broad day light. It is not up to a month, right here in front of Government House, five electricity poles were carted away.
As he enthused at the time: “Now I can say that over 80 percent of people under captivity in Katsina State have been released. So, in terms of group kidnapping I can only remember that right now we are searching for only 13 people… But in terms of massive attacks since we started, there was no single massive attack on any village or community. By my account, about 57 people have been released by them, most of them women and young children. Among them even are nationals of Niger Republic.
As Zamfara, Kebbi and a few other states in the North have proved, banditry is at the core of the injustice and lack of economic opportunities that characterise and enervate the society. Nowhere are these contradictions so transparent than the North where elite irresponsibility and poor delivery of justice have spawned an adders’ nest of recalcitrant and bloodthirsty bands of bandits, many of which have become inured to peace and are drunk on cheap money.
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