The Zamfara State Government has earmarked a total of N200 million for its amnesty programme for 'repentant' bandits in 2021.
The figure was contained in the budget details passed by the Zamfara State House of Assembly in December 2020.
In a copy of the budget seen by SaharaReporters, N354 million was also budgeted for projects related to grazing reserves.
The Bello Matawalle-led government had in 2019 entered a peace agreement with bandits.
The governor stated negotiation with the gunmen is the first-rate choice for lasting peace within the kingdom.
Matawalle while hosting Mohammed Adamu, Inspector-General of Police; Yusuf Bichi, Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS); and other safety heads on July sixteen, 2020 also presented bandits within the nation two cows in exchange for every AK47 rifle surrendered.
He defined that he selected to offer cows due to the fact the bandits need the cows to improve their monetary pursuits.
In January, SaharaReporters exposed how 15 state-of-the-art Hilux vehicles and coins gifts were given to leaders of different 'repentant' banditry businesses through Matawalle.
“Those bandits have specific organization, so if they are saying they repent, the governor will supply them a Hilux car but regrettably they're now using the automobiles to perform attacks,” a military supply told SaharaReporters
“It’s so unhappy, he known as it peace and reconciliation programme, but all you want to be wealthy now in Zamfara is to soak up hands towards the people.”
Also, the country government lately granted amnesty to Auwalun Daudawa, the chief of the gang of bandits that abducted over three hundred schoolboys within the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Daudawa and his gang on December eleven, 2020 invaded the college, capturing indiscriminately to scare citizens. The operation brought about the disappearance of over three hundred students.
The abduction passed off whilst President Muhammadu Buhari become travelling his home nation of Katsina.
After their release on December 17, 2020, Matawalle, stated the men had been rescued thru the help of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and that no ransom became paid.
Zamfara, like other North-West states, has within the closing 10 years confronted devastating assaults from armed bandits.
A committee installation to analyze the menace of armed banditry inside the place, headed via Mohammed Abubakar, a former Inspector General of Police, reported that during Zamfara State between June 2011 and May 2019, four,983 women have been widowed; 25,050 kids were orphaned; and extra than one hundred ninety,000 human beings have been displaced as a result of armed banditry.
Last yr, Governor Aminu Masari, Matawalle's counterpart in Katsina State, stated his administration had to pull out of the peace deal it had with bandits that were terrorising citizens of the state.
Masari stated in spite of the peace deal, the gunmen persisted to carry out assaults with their accomplices from Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger Republic, main to “indiscriminate killings” and kidnappings in the country.
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