Sani hails Sokoto residents for dislodging bandits from forest

Former National Assembly lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has commended the people and residents of Gobir Communities in Sokoto State for moving into the Forests to confront daredevil bandits.

In a viral video, thousands of residents from Gobir in Sokoto State stormed the forest in large numbers to confront bandits who have been terrorizing their community in recent years.

Sani said there was “no better time for People’s Shahada Actions than now.”

He stated that “failure on the side of security agencies to tackle issues of insecurity, especially banditry compelled him to make the  call for People’s Shahada Actions as the potent solution to contain the excesses of bandits.”

In a Facebook post on Thursday, Sani said “this theory is aimed at permanently freeing the people from the criminality of kidnappings and killings so that they can take back their lives, their farms, and schools.

“Vigilante and security agencies can all collaborate and cooperate on this in order to achieve results.”

Sani had in the past raised alarm about how bandits took over the north and how they were able to establish a governance structure.

“Virtually now, bandits in the North West have become a state within a state. They have been able to establish governance structure in the sense that they don’t just kidnap and extort money,  it has reached a point where they even install,” he said.

Sani had called on security agencies to make bold steps to solve problems of Boko Haram and surging banditry before getting out of hands, while he was in the Senate as a lawmaker.