Bandits who surrender their riffles will get two cows – Matawalle

Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Muhammed Matawalle has made a vow to bandits if they surrender their riffles.

In a statement he made, he said they will be given two cows as compensation because they are Fulanis and they need cows to advance their Economic interest.

He added that they won’t be given money so they don’t purchase new weapons.

His statement

“For every rifle submitted by a repentant bandit, there would be compensation of two cows.

“We don’t want to give them money, so they wouldn’t use the money to purchase new weapons.

“We said we will compensate them with cows, they are Fulani and they need the cows to advance their economic interest.

“We also told the repentant bandits that all “Dabas” (Camps) in the forests should be disbanded. We won’t accept a situation where the bandits will disarm and then go back to the forest and be staying in these camps or Dabas .

“We asked them to either come to town and be reintegrated into the society or be given economic empowerment where they are, so that they would start a new life.

“Most of them are residing in forests under the shades of trees and inside caves. That is why we came up with RUGA policy to help them.”