Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaInsecurity: Zamfara State Government Closes Eleven Cattle Markets

The bandits operating since 2009 from bases in deep forests and raiding villages to loot and kidnap residents for ransom in Northwest and central Nigeria have killed thousands of people and displaced around two million others.

The worrisome activities of the bandits have forced Zamfara State Government to again close eleven cattle markets in some parts of the state until further notice as part of measures to decapitate their activities in the state.

The affected markets are the Tsafe and Bilbis markets in the Tsafe local government, the Jangebe market in the Talata-Mafara local government, and the Wuya market in the Anka local government.

Others are Magamin Diddi market in Maradun Local government, Galadi market in Shinkafi local government, Mada market in Gusau local government, and Sabon Birnin Danali in Birnin Magaji local government.

Also affected are Sabon Birnin Dan Ali, Kokiya, Chigama, and Nasarawar Godel markets all in Birnin Magaji local government.

State’s Commissioner for Information, Munnir Haidara in a statement on Wednesday, said the decision followed security reports that the bandits were using the markets to sell off their rustled cows.

He stated that the state government has directed the security agencies to ensure compliance and arrest any person who violated the order.

The statement said: “The state government finds it necessary to close down these markets due to security reports that the bandits are conniving with some unscrupulous elements to sell off their rustled cows in those markets.”

“The security personnel have since been directed to arrest any person found in these affected markets.”

Haidara called on the people of the state to abide by the order and cooperate with the state government to uproot all activities of bandits in the state.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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