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BANDITRY: Zamfara groups dare govt, police, vow to continue jungle justice
Despite a warning from government, and the police, against the extrajudicial killing of suspected bandits in the state, Zamfara State Volunteers Group Association have said they would continue the killing of bandits terrorizing the state.
The Secretary of the group, Alhaji Sani Labaran, said the group will not stop killing bandits in the state unless stringent measures are taken by the government, and security agencies, to put an end to the bandits’ activities in the state.
Recall that the state government had warned volunteer groups against extrajudicial killings, vowing to deal with anybody caught in the act.
But Labaran, who on Friday spoke during a meeting with the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Nagogo, said no amount of persuasion, or threat would make them drop their weapons and stop fighting bandits as long as the murderous gangsters did not stop killing people in the state.
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His words: “When the state government invited us for a reconciliation meeting, we wholeheartedly agreed to give up the fight against bandits, and also surrendered more than 9,000 weapons in anticipation that the bandits too would surrender theirs and embrace peace. But unfortunately, they have continued to kill our people.
“We are going to defend ourselves and fight back, no matter what is going to happen.”
He added that “It would be very unfair for the security agencies to ask us to stop fighting bandits while they cannot give us adequate protection.
“We will drop our weapons whenever the bandits are chased out of our state.”
Nagogo however, warned the volunteer groups against taking the law into their own hands by carrying arms and fighting criminals.
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