June 05, (THEWILL) – The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a member of the State House of Assembly and a former local government chairman in connection with banditry in the state.
The State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Dalijan, disclosed this on Wednesday while hosting the officer in charge of the Counterterrorism Unit under the United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime, Thomas Parker, at the Command headquarters in Gusau, the state capital.
CP Dalijan, who failed to disclose the identity of the suspects, however, appealed to the UN to help establish a forensic laboratory in Zamfara as well as training of officers.
In his response, Parker said the UN delegation was in the state following an appeal by Governor Dauda Lawal to the UN to assist the state in tackling insecurity.
Parker, who said he visited the police command to gather more information about the state’s existential threats, informed Dalijan of the UN’s readiness to conduct an assessment of the security situation first to understand the causes and challenges and how to help deal with the threats.
