Zamfara State Government on Tuesday vowed never to embark on any peace negotiations or engage armed bandits in any dialogue in the state.
Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Abubakar Nakwada, while addressing newsmen in Gusau, said that the current administration has no intention of engaging any leader of bandits or their agent in discussion, whatsoever, in the name of a peace deal that has never worked before.
Nakwada said the state government was prepared to, rather, pursue the bandits to their hideouts and crush them and their sponsors.
The SSG added that the state government would work diligently in collaboration with security agencies to make sure that the fight against insecurity is taken to the doorsteps of the bandits.
He lambasted the past administration of Mohammed Bello Matawalle for allegedly wasting several billions of naira on white elephants that had no direct bearing on improving the lives of the masses.
He said, “Matawalle’s administration had spent over N10bn on purchasing utility vehicles and there is no proper record to back up the claim. Some of the vehicles were shared among cronies and our administration would do everything humanly possible to recover the said vehicles.
“Our administration wants to use this medium to inform the good people of the state that all land allocation to individuals, groups in the state or outside stand revoked because it was not done in the overriding public interest.”
The Zamfara SSG called on the people of the state to cooperate with the government on its policies and programmes, saying they were aimed at reducing or alleviating the suffering of the masses.