Police Officers Hailing Armed Bandits As They Pass Freely Through Checkpoint
A video has surfaced showing armed bandits passing through a police checkpoint freely.
In the video obtained by Naija News House, police officers were also seen directing and hailing a large number of gunmen as they passed through the checkpoint on their motorcycles.
Security sources said that the incident happened recently between Zamfara and Sokoto states.
“Bandits with their weapons are moving freely,” a man who recorded the video could be heard saying in Hausa.
However, another man in the vehicle quickly asked him to keep quiet.
“Please keep quiet, why are you talking?” he said.
Zamfara, Niger, Katsina, Sokoto, and many other states in North-West and North-Central Nigeria are bedevilled by bandit attacks.
The bandits kill and kidnap at will despite the large deployment of police officers and soldiers to the affected states.
In 2019, the Zamfara State government under former governor and current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, entered into a peace agreement with the gunmen.
But despite the accord, communities in the state were frequently attacked, and residents were kidnapped and/or killed.
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