Sani Shinkafi, a former chairman of the Committee on Prosecution of Bandits Related Offences In Zamfara State, on Monday advised the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to stop posting corps members to some states experiencing incessant bandit attacks, Daily Post reports. According to him, states like Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto are places the NYSC should cease deploying corps members to.
He said this in an interview on Channels Television’s
breakfast programme. Two weeks ago, armed bandits abducted eight NYSC members
along a highway in Zamfara. He advised the Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda
Lawal to engage in a “peace dialogue” with repentant bandits, stressing that
the stance taken by the administration of Lawal’s predecessor, Bello Matawalle,
to dialogue with the terrorists was beneficial to securing the release of
abductees in the state. He lamented, “No place in the 14 local
governments of Zamfara is safe, many people are killed, many people are
kidnapped.”
