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Modupe Shodeinde
The Zamfara State government says it has intercepted vehicles conveying food, drinks and fuel to various bandit camps in the state.
The government said it had also arrested about 100 violators of Governor Bello Matawalle’s executive order to restore law and order in the state.
Secretary of the state’s Special Taskforce on Security, Mr Abdulrasheed Haruna, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau on Wednesday. Matawalle had established the Special Taskforce to enforce measures to address the lingering security challenges of mass kidnapping for ransom and cattle rustling by gunmen facing the state.
NAN recalled that Matawalle had on August 26, signed the executive orders in line with the relevant sections of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended. In signing the executive order, the governor said he acted in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Section 5(2),176(2) and 315(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
He also said it was in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf in an effort to protect the lives and property of the people of the state and at the same time contain the security challenges.
