Zamfara governor imposes curfew, shuts markets
Zamfara government has declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Jangebe town in Talata Mafara Local Government Area.
This came on the heels of bandits attack on the area, abducting some 300 schoolgirls Jangebe.
The markets will remain short until further notice.
The Commissioner for Information, Sulaiman Anka, in a statement, said the government’s decision was to avoid a further breach of peace in the state.
Mr. Anka claimed substantial evidence showed market activities aided and abetted bandits in Jangebe and neighbouring communities.
The police have urged the residents to obey the directive.
On February 26, armed bandits invaded a girls’ school in Zamfara, abducting at least three hundred students from Government Girls’ Secondary School in Jangebe.
The abduction came barely a few weeks after hundreds of schoolboys were abducted in Katsina by bandits, drawing nationwide uproar.
Prior to the girls’ kidnapping, bandits breached a high school in Niger and seized about 29 students and school administrators.
National security sources informed Peoples Gazette that the federal government paid $2.099 million (N800 million) as ransom.
But the students and their teachers were not released after Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello caught wind of the arrangement and instigated a cordoning of the vast forest where the students and their abductors have been held up.
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