The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has expressed delight that Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state has started exposing those collaborating with bandits in the state.
About a week ago, the Arewa Consultative Forum, issued a press release calling on the governor, Bello Mutawale, to name the people collaborating with kidnappers and bandits in Zamfara. Emmanuel Yawe, National Publicity Secretary of ACF, said in a statement that the governor had claimed that he knew the collaborators and that Nigerians will be shocked to know them.
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National Chairman of ACF, Chief Audu Ogbe, had called on the governor to give the names and let the heavens fall. ACF, however, expressed happiness that the government of Zamfara has acted appropriately. “A soldier and his girlfriend have been arrested in Zamfara for supplying arms and military uniforms to bandits. “The deputy chief of staff to the Zamfara state governor who represented him at a press conference said the arrest followed information supplied by community-based intelligence.”
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Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Wednesday in Abuja briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the security situation in his state with the president pledging to assist the northwestern state to address the lingering challenges.
The governor, while briefing State House correspondents after he met behind closed doors with the president, said that a presidential intervention toward addressing the challenges facing the state had become necessary “so as to sustain the peace Zamfara is now enjoying’’.
According to him, a solution to the recurring violence between farmers and herders is in sight. “A solution to the incessant violence is in sight. All state governments must brace up and construct grazing grounds, popularly called Ruga, so as to find a lasting solution to clashes between herdsmen and farmers across the country. “The provision of the grazing grounds will go a long way in preventing herdsmen from moving from one place to another. “In Zamfara, we are constructing Ruga for them.
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