Police arrests Assembly member, ex-LG Chairman for alleged banditry

The Zamfara State Police Commissioner CP Muhammad Dalijan, said the state Police Command has arrested high-profile personalities including a member of the state House of Assembly, and a former local government Chairman in connection with banditry in the state.

CP Dalijan, disclosed this while hosting the officer in charge of the Counterterrorism Unit, under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Thomas Parker, at the command headquarters in Gusau

The Police Commissioner did not mention the names of the high profile but said the command arrested those in connection with crime some months ago.

CP Dalijan however, noted that crime rates have reduced in Zamfara due to the ongoing efforts of security agencies in collaboration with Community Protection Guards (CPG), and flushed out the suspected terrorists who migrated from Maiduguri to Zamfara in the Northwest.

CP Dalijan also appealed to the United Nations, to help establish a forensic laboratory to address the challenge of going to Lagos to conduct forensic analysis.

He urged the UN to replicate in Zamfara what they did in Maiduguri and sought the global body’s assistance for training on investigation, and establishment of forensic laboratories to accelerate the investigation and prosecution of suspected criminals in Zamfara state.

Earlier speaking, Thomas Parker said they were in Zamfara state on the appeal that Governor Dauda Lawal had made to the United Nations UN to assist the state in tackling the insecurity in the state.

Parker further said he was at the state Police Command to gather more information about the existing insecurity threats in the state for the UN’s assessment of the security situation and know how to deal with the threats.