Opinion: The Decimation of the Rural North, By Isa Sanusi
The governments of Zamfara and Katsina States may have entered into peace deal with bandits in desperation to end the brutal killings of their people. It seemed that the peace deals were the only options they had. In addition, the whole situation has been complicated by the failure to find out or make information available to the public on who these killers are, and what might be their motivations or what they seek to achieve.
The majority of jobs in the North are in the agricultural sector and it is the rural areas that shoulder much of productive agricultural activities that feed the country. But with rising insecurity, villagers are having to choose between producing food in conditions of great danger or staying alive.
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