Police disclosed that a
total of 14 persons were killed, 10 others sustained gunshot injuries while
some houses were set ablaze, in a reprisal attack on Fardoki village in the
same Gummi local government where 11 persons were allegedly killed.
The Executive Governor of
Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has said he canceled his planned official trip
to Germany due to the killings of 14 persons by bandits in Karaye village of
Gummi local government area of the state on Sunday.
According to a statement
signed by Yusuf Idris, the Director-General, Press Affairs to the governor and
made available to newsmen in Gusau on Friday, the postponement of the trip
earlier scheduled for the Wednesday, Nov. 20 was necessary due to the security
situation in the state.
Governor Matawalle was
billed to go to Germany to share his idea on how he was able to resolve armed
banditry in Zamfara with the rest of the world.
News Agency of Nigeria said
the governor’s trip also followed an invitation extended to him by the German
Chancellor when the former was in Germany last September as part of President
Buhari’s delegation to the country.
Idris said int the
statement that the postponement of the visit would allow the governor to fully
address the security situation in the state.
He maintained that having
attained peaceful coexistence in the state through the peace and reconciliation
initiative in the state, the government would continue to do its best in order
to sustain the tempo.
The governor’s spokesman
said that Matawalle had vowed to ensure that all those involved in the attack
were apprehended and brought to book.
He also reiterated the
governor’s threat to the immediate past governor of the state Alhaji Abdulaziz
Yari that should there be any further breach of the peace trailing the former
governor’s visit to the state, he would lead security personnel to arrest him.
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