Bandits overtake Community, Demand Levies As Residents Cry Out
Residents cry out as bandits overtake Community, demand levies from inhabitants
Many residents of Zamfara State’s Dansadau emirate have complained that robbers had taken over their lands, preventing them from accessing their farms.
Some villagers who spoke with newsmen over the phone said they had to pay levies to the bandits to allow them to cultivate their farms, especially during this year’s rainy season.
“Some villages had to pay N20 million naira as a levy, the bandits were even demanding free access to the farms after its cultivation”
It was gathered that before the bandits overtook every part of the state, Dansadu axis had been a colony of banditry.
Kuyabana forest is one of the forests in the Dansadau Emirate where bandits have their camps and hideouts, from where they move to nearby villages to unleash terror attacks on innocent citizens of the state.
Daily Global Newspaper gathered that most of the communities have started fervent prayers to seek divine intervention, even as they urged the federal and Zamfara State governments to demonstrate enough political will to tackle the menace that has been ravaging the axis for over a decade.
Mohammed Dansadau, a local farmer and resident of the area, the number of killings, kidnappings, and cattle rustling has increased in the troubled area.
Dansadau urged the authorities to address the unfortunate development in order to save the residents’ souls from the area’s constant insecurity.
“The farmers can no longer engage in their farming activities due to constant operations of the bandits in the Dansadau axis, So we want the federal and Zamfara State governments to take proactive steps, to enable residents go about their legitimate endeavours.
