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Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle on Saturday said his administration is seeking a new approach to handle insecurity issues in the state.
Matawalle made the comment while receiving Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu in Gusau, the state capital.
Bagudu and Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar made the trip to Gusau to offer their sympathies over the recent killings in some local government areas in the state.
Matawalle warned armed bandits in the state to repent or change base as he draws a new roadmap in his approach to handling the issue of security challenges facing the state, according to a statement from his spokesman, Yusuf Gusau.
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The Zamfara State government has insisted that dialogue with bandits is still the best option in fighting banditry and other crimes as it is yielding positive results in the state.
Addressing newsmen on Wednesday evening, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Bala Bello Maru, shortly after the state executive council meeting held at Government House Gusau, said kinetic and non-kinetic approach would be maintained to solve issues of banditry in the state.
Maru said in view of the successes through the use of dialogue with bandits, the state government will keep using the option in its bid to end banditry in the state.
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Bandits have demanded the sum of N50m for the seven kidnapped children of the children of the factional Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Gyare Kadauri Sani.
The victims, Bashar, Abubakar, Haruna, Habibah, Sufyanu, Mubarak and Armiya, were kidnapped by bandits last Friday in Kadauri village.
Gyare told
PUNCH Metro on the phone that the bandits called him and told him to provide the money or forget seeing his children again.
“They called me and asked me to pay N50m for the release of the seven children and warned that they would kill them if the money was not paid on time,” he stated.