Guardian NG
Bandit kingpin, Abu Sanni, in a documentary released yesterday by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Africa Eye said insecurity in Nigeria has become a business everyone, including the government benefits from.
Yusuf Anka, a journalist who crisscrossed remote bandit enclaves in the state, undertook the 50 minutes documentary titled The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara.
The BBC documentary sheds light on the mindset of bandit leaders, the booming nature of the kidnap-for-ransom business and how insecurity in Zamfara State may have been triggered by ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani groups.
The bandits who spoke with the BBC team accused the government of neglecting them and giving priority to the Hausa community.
Sanni said the 279 schoolgirls who were kidnapped on February 27, 2021, in Jangebe, Talata-Mafara Local Council area, Zamfara State by his gang weas done to disgrace the government as revenge for sending the military after them…
