Police Wanted Terrorist Gets Traditional Title in Zamfara



There have been outrage after a notorious terror kingpin, on police wanted list, Ada Aleru, was allegedly turbaned as the Sarkin Fulani (the chief of the Fulani) of the Yandoton Daji Emirate in Zamfara state.

According to reports, the turbaning ceremony was held at the palace of the Emir of Yandoton Daji on Saturday, July 16, 2022, and was attended by the council chairman of Tsafe Local Government and the state Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe (rtd).

The decision to confer the title on the leader of a gang of bandits was premised on the role he played during a recent peace process locally arranged between the emirate and the bandits terrorising Tsafe Local Government Area.

Yandoton Daji is one of the two new emirates created by the Zamfara government in May. It was carved out from the Tsafe emirate. The emir of Yandoton Daji is Aliyu Marafa.

The bandit leader was the arrowhead of a deadly raid on Kadisau, a community in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, where about 52 people were killed.

He was declared wanted by the Katsina Police Command in 2019 with a bounty of N5 million put on his head.

Deadly attacks have raged across Zamfara state where bandits have thrived. Many of the communities in the state have long been terrorised by gangs who raid villages, steal cattle and kidnap residents for ransom.

In 2019, the state government signed a peace agreement with the gunmen.
About 15 brand new Hilux vehicles and cash gifts were also given to leaders of different ‘repentant’ gangs of bandits by the governor in 2020.

But despite all these, communities in the state are still being attacked and residents kidnapped and/or killed.

However, Nigerians reacting to the development has accused the Buhari-lead administration of justifying insecurity.

Pauda wrote: “This administration’s lack of state capacity and tacit support for non-state actors will empower these groups amass so much influence that they will moot power sharing in future.”

El-bonga stated; “When we are already to end banditry, our leaders know what to do. We have gone from giving bandits millions in the name of amnesty to giving them traditional titles in broad daylight.”

“The govt chose to do nothing because apparently those in helm of affairs are sympathizers. I don’t want to believe these elements can overpower state security forces,” Jobi Samson said.

Emeka Festus wrote; “Peace is in the presence of justice, not in the absence of violence. They have just crowned a rogue leader and for what would come next, I don’t want to imagine.”

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