In an exclusive Interview with the BBC Hausa service monitored by this medium on Saturday, Governor Dauda Lawal insisted that his administration will not enter into any reconciliation with the armed bandits.
He said his position of not accepting reconciliation with the armed bandits was informed by the previous experience where similar arrangements of reconciliation were entered into with the same sets of bandit criminals but later resurface with their heinous activities.
He said if those willing to accept genuine reconciliation among the bandits are identified, certain modalities must be enshrined and also they have to surrender their arms completely to the State authorities.
He expressed satisfaction that the State is recording significant improvement in the area of insecurity, noting that unlike before when citizens in their large number were being abducted or kidnapped by these bandits, the Governor said now the security situation has improved significantly.
On the identity of those bandits criminals who have come up with the idea of detonating and exploding bombs in the State the Governor said they are still making their findings to ascertain whether it was Dogo Gide one of the bandits leader or another sets of Lukurawa criminal groups that are responsible for the new development as alleged.
Governor Lawal insisted that his administration is fully committed to ensuring justice for all sets of people Muslims or non Muslims, hausa or non hausa speaking person including those without religion noting that the spirit of justice and fairness will continue to drive his administration to the latter.
He added that he is always passionate to see the kind of interactions that are known between Fulani and Hausa people is arrestored back just like in those days explaining that he will be happy to see those that are known into criminalities to surrender and repent to God almighty for the progress and development of the state.
On the plan his government had for the internally displaced individuals, Dauda Lawal said his administration is not denying the fact that threre are a significant number of internally displaced people but noted that, he has already set up a committee to go around the local government areas and take inventory of them for the government to plan appropriately for their wellbeing noting that soonest banditry will become a thing of history and normal ways of interaction between Hausa-Fulani cultural race would be restored.
