Kidnapping, banditry can be cancerous, consume Nigeria if… – Masari vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
By Bashir Bello
The Governor stated this on Monday when he received in his office the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila who led other principal officers on working visit to the state over the wave of insecurity. “So let us kill the banditry, kidnapping and all forms of divisible criminality, then we come to contest for power, then we can be as that we can do. But for now, let us first, save the country, for us at local level, save the state before we start fighting for who becomes what.
Masari said he is faced with constraints of resources to do somethings to appease the Fulani herdsmen. On the porous border, Masari said, “Our porous border with Niger Republic as a result of the fall of Gaddafi has unleashed arms and ammunition accompanied by drugs which the young people in the forest are taking. An average of 35 – 40 years are in the forest stacked with illiteracy, no western education nor Islamic. So you can see the kind of people we are living with.
“they were terribly been harassed by security men, extorting a child to the offences they never committed and until we started this , a Fulani man or woman cannot go to take his cow to the market. He has to sale it off to a middleman who will go into the forest, something of N150,000 buy it N20,000 or N30,000. If the Fulani man refuses to sell, the man would come back to town and when he takes his cattle to market he will tell the security man, that man is a bandit, he stole the cow.
“We came here to see what’s happening on ground, to talk to the Governor. Nigeria is one country, state cannot deal with issues like this on its own. Issues like this are complicated and very complex. We believe that at the Federal government level on whom lies the better part of security of Nigeria there must be something we can do to assist the state. And you cannot assist the state if you don’t know what is going on . We have been to Zamfara and Borno State, and the same stories.
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