Rights group blames Matawalle’s peace deals with bandits for escalating insecurity in Zamfara

Rights group blames Matawalle’s peace deals with bandits for escalating insecurity in Zamfara

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has blamed Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, for the unending insecurity in the state with the peace deals he entered into with bandits and terrorists.

The group in a statement on Wednesday, said the peace deals with bandit kingpins by Matawalle’s administration was encouraging banditry, kidnapping and sundry crimes in the state.

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The HURIWA statement issued by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the security situation in the Northern state has worsened to a situation where bandits and terrorists operate freely, kidnapping people and terrorising defenceless citizens, imposing taxes on them and making demands of food and ransom payment from them.

“The Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has failed the people as the chief security officer and does not deserve to be remembered on the positive page of history, going by the ceaseless…

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