• Sule urges calm, action against bandits
• Sokoto LG chairman denies inaction
Community leaders and council chairmen from Charanchi and Batagarawa council areas in Katsina State, at the weekend, signed a “peace agreement” with a group of bandits.
At the meeting, one of the armed men addressed residents directly, saying the insurgency and kidnappings were shaped by wider political decisions rather than only local actors.
“It was the government that wanted us to engage in banditry, but now it has called us and told us to stop. Therefore, by God’s grace, we have stopped from today,” said one of the bandits during the peace meeting.
“If the government w
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