The farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria is an issue of growing concern among stakeholders across the country. These lingering clashes, which have claimed several lives and displaced many others, have forced the government to start thinking of initiatives to address the situation.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Sunday in Gusau, expressed shock at the killing of 13 police officers by suspected bandits.
The police personnel were gunned down at a mobile camp in Kurar Mota community in the Bagudu Local Government Area of the state.
The governor’s reaction is contained in a statement by Malam Yusuf Idris, Director-General, Media, Public Enlightenment and Communications, Government House, Gusau.
The statement said Matawalle expressed “devastation“ when he visited seven injured police officers who were receiving treatment at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau.
“It was on receipt of the news of the unfortunate incident that the governor … immediately rushed to the hospital to sympathise with those currently receiving treatment at the facility.
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“For let the gods so speed as I love the name honour more than I fear death”
Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (I.ii).
The leading political event in the last week of June and first week of July, 2021 is arguably the decamping story of Zamfara State Governor from PDP to APC which came with a lot of controversies known to many in Nigeria. Three people top the headlines in this political instance: Governor Bello Matawalle; Former Governor Abdul’Azeez Yari Abubakar and Distinguished Senator Kabiru Marafa (CON). Of all the three, Senator Marafa is the most heard about. Thanks to his generous and courageous outspoken nature, the nation and the world got the full background of the story in the tireless session he had with the media -print, broadcast, local, international, Hausa and English alike. Senator Marafa’s comprehensive narrative demystified the hide and seek game that inherently characterised the defection story with timely, coherent and transparent updates.