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Traders, buyers desert Zamfara market after vigilance group kills suspected bandits

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Traders and buyers on Friday deserted the Dansadau market in Zamfara State after some members of the Yab Sakai, a vigilance group, reportedly killed some suspected bandits in a reprisal attack.

According to Daily Trust, the attack comes after three farmers were killed in the Ruwan Tofa community on Thursday.

The usually noisy livestock and grains market is currently like a graveyard due to fear of possible retaliation by the bandits as traders disappeared for safety reasons.

“I’m right now inside my house, bodies of the slain suspected bandits have littered the marketplace. As I’m talking to you people are in a state of apprehension over what might happen next.”

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“The armed bandits had earlier blocked Gusau – Dansadau road forcing commuters to suspend travels. Commercial drivers, plying the road are currently on strike over incessant kidnappings and armed robberies being perpetrated by the armed bandits.

“When the local vigilante arrived, they blocked all escape routes in the community. Some of them stationed themselves at all the exit points of the community while the others headed towards the livestock section of the market to carry out the executions, ” a trader, Bilyaminu Dansadau, said.

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A resident, Alhaji Yau Dansadau, added that “After sensing trouble, some of the suspected bandits ran to shops, police station and even residential houses to take refuge… Security Operatives are currently patrolling the streets to forestall possible further breakdown of law and order,” he said.

The spokesman of the state police command, SP Muhammad Shehu, could not be reached for comment at the time of filing this report.

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The state Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, neither returned multiple calls nor reply text messages from our correspondent.

The development comes hours after Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara suspended a monarch who conferred a title on a soldier allegedly supplying arms to bandits.

Daily Trust

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