POLICE ARREST ZAMFARA HOUSE Of ASSEMBLY MEMBER, DISTRICT HEAD FOR BANDITRY
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High-profile individuals have been detained by the Zamfara State Police Command in relation to banditry in the state, including a former local government chairman and a member of the State House of Assembly.
This was disclosed by Zamfara State Commissioner of Police Muhammad Dalijan during a meeting with Thomas Parker, the head of the Counterterrorism Unit under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), at the command centre in Gusau, the state capital.
The identities of the well-known people detained in relation to the crime were left unsaid by him.
In order to overcome the difficulty of travelling to Lagos in order to perform forensic analysis, CP Dalijan also made a request to the UN for assistance in setting up a forensic laboratory.
While entertaining Parker, Dalijan urged the UN to do in Zamfara what they had done in Maiduguri and asked for support from the international organisation for training in investigation techniques and the creation of forensic labs in order to expedite the investigation and prosecution of suspected offenders.
However, he pointed out that Zamfara’s crime rate has decreased as a result of security services’ continued efforts, working with Community Protection Guards (CPGs), to root out suspected terrorists who moved from Maiduguri to Zamfara State in Northwest Nigeria.
Parker responded by saying that they were in Zamfara State in response to Governor Dauda Lawal’s request for assistance from the UN to help the state address the instability that surrounded it.
Parker, who went to the police command to learn more about the existential dangers facing the state, told the police that the UN was prepared to perform an evaluation of the security situation in order to identify the problems and challenges involved as well as how to assist in addressing the threats.
In order to better understand the extent, pervasive difficulties, and key causes of the insecurity the state faces, as well as how best to assist in countering the threat, the UNDOC team has since started a three-day stakeholder engagement in the state.
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