Bandits kidnap 50 Zamfara elders on reconciliation mission

Suspected bandits have abducted fifty elderly people from Magamin Diddi village in Magami/Faru ward of Maradun Local Government Area.

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Dailytrust reports that the victims were k!dnapped by one Jammo, a bandit kingpin in charge of Muntsira forest in Maradun LGA, while they were on reconciliation mission. The elders had gone to meet with the bandits who repeatedly denied them access to their markets.

Confirming the incident to DailyTrust, the Councilor of Magami/Faru ward in the LGA, Bello Husseini revealed that previously the bandits kingpin Jammo had an encounter with the Zamfara State security outfit ‘Askarawa” where they killed two of his lieutenants and catered away their rifles.

However, during the last fasting period, the bandits, who were on a reprisal attack, also k!lled two Askarawa personnel and took away their rifles.

Husseini mentioned that the bandit Kingpin requested for reconciliation after one of his boys was k!lled in a recent military operations at Kandare village, which the people granted on their own against the government policy.

According to him, the communities sent in a 50-man committee and on their arrival, Jamm betrayed and kidnapped them but later released 11 people. Hon. Husseini said Jammo is currently demanding N24 million for the three seized rifles.

“We are against any form of reconciliation because we know they are not trustworthy, they can speak one true statement against a hundred lies. The people he held hostage were elderly and he had no reason to hold them hostage; he betrayed them by saying he is tired of banditry and opted for reconciliation,” Husseini said

The Councillor further stated that he migrated from his ward due to insecurity despite that he is against reconciliation in whatever form.

Also speaking the chairman of Maradun Local Government, Hon. Bello Dosara, said the people decided to meet with the bandit kingpin without government’s clearance.

“We are against reconciliation with the bandits and Governor Dauda Lawal never supported that, but unknown to us the people chose to go on with it,” Dosara said