The Zamfara State government has inaugurated a 2,600-member quasi-security organisation called Community Protection Guards (CPGs) to help in rolling back the threat coming from bandits in the state. The region is most affected by bandits levy taxes, kill and kidnap residents for ransom.
This is just as the Zamfara State government has inaugurated a 2,600-member quasi-security organisation called Community Protection Guards (CPGs) to help in rolling back the threat coming from bandits in the state. LEADERSHIP reports that the region is most affected by bandits levy taxes, kill and kidnap residents for ransom.
In the past a few governors had negotiated peace deals with known bandit leaders in which a lot of money was believed to have been given to the outlaws to give up their criminal activities, but they soon returned to their old habits, using the funds to buy more arms. But at the graduation and official commissioning of CPG, in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, yesterday, the chairman of the North West Governors’ Forum and governor of Katsina State, Umar Dikko Radda, announced the position of his colleagues, saying no more negotiation with the outlaw
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