Senate Reveals Why Buhari Must Deploy Military To End Bandits, Insurgency In Jigawa

The Senate has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari, led government to coordinate the quick sending of a semi-Permanent detachment of fighters to handle banditry in Jigawa State.

Sponsor of the motion, Sena tor Hassan Hadejia made a call on the upper chamber on Tuesday following and said:

“These migrant alien settlers are masquerading and mixing with herders trooping to the area because of the fertile flood plain and thick forest cover.”

“They have also adopted unwarranted destruction of farm produce to discourage farmers from planting in what appears to be an extension of the strategy in the far northwest to disrupt agricultural production and precipitate calamitous food insecurity in the country to aid in their strategy of creating instability through hunger and local economic devastation.

“The three local Governments affected by the flood plain of the Hadejia River Basin and are the most productive in the zone providing fertile land and abundant water to thousands of families who can achieve 3 harvests annually

“The perpetrators have no fear or regard for the police and the local inhabitants are also losing confidence in the authorities as no one has yet been apprehended and successfully prosecuted”,