By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has suspended Surajo Namakkah the district head of Badarawa, Shinkafi emirate, for conferring a title on a military officer who was arrested for selling ammunition to bandits.
Matawalle who disclosed this in a statement released via his twitter handle account, said that the military officer was recently arrested in possession of 20 rounds of 62mm live ammunition.
The suspect he said, was apprehended at the point of handing over the ammunition and had allegedly collected an advance payment of N100,000 from bandits.
The Zamfara Governor also informed that one medical doctor and seven others were arrested for aiding and abetting banditry in the state.
The statement reads:
We suspended Surajo Namakkah the district head of Badarawa, Shinkafi emirate, for conferring a title on a military officer who was arrested for selling ammunition to bandits. The military officer was recently arrested in possession of 20 rounds of 62mm live ammunition.
The suspect was at the point of handing over the ammunition when he was apprehended, and had allegedly collected an advance payment of N100,000 from bandits. Also, one medical doctor and seven others were arrested for aiding and abetting banditry in Zamfara.
Precise Post recalls that the Zamfara State governor was said to have done everything possible to bring the activities of bandits in the state to an end including giving amnesty to repentant bandits and paying them huge sums of money and buying them Hilux vans.
