Terrorists operating in Zamfara State are begging for dialogue and amnesty from the state government.
Gatekeepers News reports that terrorists operating in Zamfara State, North West Nigeria are suing for peace following continuous pounding by the military from air and land, with many of their camps destroyed and many of them neutralised and arrested.
The terrorists now want to dialogue with the government and have made overtures in this regard.
Governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle disclosed this while addressing a congregation, but dismissed the overtures as belated.
He added that the state government is no longer interested in dialoguing with terrorists as they rejected the overtures stretched to them earlier.
Matawalle said that instead, security forces would flush them out of the state.
He said, “My administration will no longer grant amnesty to bandits as they have failed to embrace the peace initiative earlier extended to them.’’
Matawalle further urged residents to be patient and to support new security measures put in place to flush out bandits and their collaborators to restore peace in the state.
The governor said the barrage of attacks on terrorists by security forces have made them make a fresh overture to government seeking dialogue.
He said the terrorists’ representatives informed him that they had repented and would want to dialogue with government.
He noted that some of the terrorists were running out of Zamfara to other states as a result of the new security measures introduced by the state government.
Matawalle warned politicians against giving any form of support to terrorists, stressing that: “politicians should fear God and stop buying motorcycles to distribute to people who, in turn, sell to terrorists to perpetuate their evil acts.’’
Matawalle also said that Zamfara government would prosecute any politician caught in the act.
Zamfara had cut off food, petroleum products supply and other essential commodities from the reach of the bandits in their various camps.
The government had also intercepted several vehicles conveying food, drinks and petroleum products to various bandits’ camps in the state.
The government said earlier that it had also arrested more than 100 violators of Matawalle’s Executive Order to restore law and order in the state.
Matawalle had established the Special Taskforce to enforce measures to address the lingering security challenges of mass kidnapping for ransom and cattle rustling in the state.
