Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Dalijan has blamed the hunger starvation ravaging the North on bandits, saying the bandits did not give farmers the chance to do their farming activities last year.
The Commissioner stated that eighty-five per cent of farmers in Northern Nigeria last year could not have access to their farms, pointing out that it was not caused by the government.
Dalijan further explained that there is hope this year as more than eighty-seven percent of the farmers have returned to their farms due to the improved security situation, saying that many of the bandits want to repent and drop their banditry activities.
He stated this when he held talks with stakeholders at the Police Command Headquarters in Gusau, the State capital, aimed at persuading them to stop the planned protest against hunger in the country.
He described those who are planning to embark on the protest as criminals, bandits, illegal miners, armed robbers and unemployed youth who want to take advantage of the opportunity to break into people’s shops to loot valuables.
The State Police boss admitted that Zamfara residents are suffering from bandits’ attacks, saying that if any form of protest is allowed, it could worsen the insecurity situation in the state which was why he convened the stakeholders to discuss with those concerned to shelve their idea.
Speaking, the state chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Sani Halilu, reminded the CP that everyone knows that the situation is bad in Nigeria, which calls for urgent measures to tackle it to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians.
He stressed that the Commissioner called for stronger collaboration between the civil populace and security agencies in tackling the lingering security challenges ravaging Zamfara State.
