Zamfara Seeing Improvements on New Playbook
Zamfara state is reporting that it is getting good results after shutting down telecom networks and some markets as it battles bandits in the state: "The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, on Monday said the government shut down all telecommunications networks in the state to check banditry. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had ordered telecom operators to suspend their networks in Zamfara. The development followed the suspension of weekly markets and other drastic measures in the adjoining troubled North-west and North central states to check activities of bandits in the regions."
“The bandits are releasing their captives, they are abandoning their motorcycles after running out of fuel. Many of the bandits have been killed by the security forces and the security personnel will sustain the offensive against them until we wipe them out from Zamfara,” the governor said.
