Insecurity: Zamfara Gov And His Quest For Safe Haven
By Nuhu Abubakar Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system once said “my belief is firm in a law of compensation; the true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. This quote fits precisely into the prevailing situation in Zamfara state where a state government compensated bandits and allowed the victims to lick their wounds. With rising insecurity especially banditry emerging from Zamfara state, opinion leaders in the state opted for punitive major but the state Governor Bello Matawalle decided to negotiate and subsequently grant them amnesty. In justifying his actions, the Governor said “ Not all of them are criminals. If you investigate what is happening, and what made them to take the laws into their hands, some of them, sometimes were cheated by so-called the vigilante group”. “They normally ...