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SOLID MINERAL PRODUCING STATES SHALL AGITATE FOR ALLOCATION OF SPECIAL FUNDS

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The former Chief of Staff to former Governor Yari of Zamfara Engr. Abdullahi Abdulkarim Tsafe has advocated for the review of national revenue sharing formula to reconsider allocating special funds for solid mineral producing states.

Tsafe who was speaking during a special interview session with the Managing Editor of Thunder Blowers Multimedia Services in Kaduna insisted that, with the current economic reality, states who have potential of solid minerals need to be given special consideration so that they can take advantage of the special fund to be allocated to them to provide the needed development.

He stated that with the way things are going in Nigeria, many states may suffer in the incoming months if certain consideration are not accorded to states that are contributing to resource generation.

“With the reforms in the NNPC which is partly commercialized couple with the dwindling revenue accrued and the persistent insecurity ravaging the country, things may not be well if statutory reforms in terms of resource sharing formula has not been made to assist states that are contributing to revenue generation”.

“It is time for states that have solid mineral potentials to teem up together and confront the government at the center so that, certain percentage of the revenue accruals from the sales of solid minerals can be added noting that if not, the condition of states like Zamfara in the incoming months would be hard to contain”.

Tsafe raised concern that considering the level of insecurity ravaging the country, the future of many states are threatened by the possibility of economic crises which will surely be consequential to the blinking future of the state.

He stressed that with the current reconciliation effort being made within the Zamfara APC, active hands are on the ground for the Governor to make use of them to initiate ideas that will help revive the economy of Zamfara and help the state come up with alternative ways of boosting the state IGR”

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ZAMFARA GOVERNORSHIP TRIBUNAL TO HOLD INAUGURAL SITTING IN SOKOTO FRIDAY.

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The Zamfara state Governorship election petition tribunal is to hold its inaugural sitting in Sokoto on Friday the 29th of June 2023.

This is contained in a letter of invitation signed by the Secretary to the tribunal Salihu Umar Esq.

Former Governor of Zamfara Bello Matawalle had through his counsel Usman O. Sule dragged Dauda Lawal, INEC and PDP to the tribunal challenging the declaration of Dauda Lawal as the elected Governor of Zamfara State.

Matawalle us challenging the non admissibility of the election result collated from Maradun by the state returning officer, non conduct of election in the four remaining Registration Areas of Birnin Magaji LG. as well as over voting in several poling units across the state.

He is praying for the tribunal to declare him winner of the 2023 gubernatorial poll having scoring over (98,000) votes in Maradun as against over (20,000) recorded as the score for his party.

Mr. Usman Sule (SAN) is to lead six other Senior Advocates of Nigeria, inclusive of Prof. Maiyaki in defending the petition filed by Governor Bello Matawalle.

 

 

 

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NO ROOM FOR RECONCILIATION: ZMSG TELL BANDITS

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Zamfara state government, through one of its spokesmans Mustapha Jafar Kaura has declared that the administration of Dauda Lawal will not enter into reconciliation with the armed bandits

Jafar who stated this via interview with the BBC Hausa insisted that Governor Dauda Lawal is saddened by the recent armed bandit tragedy that befallen the people of Janbako and Gora Namaye in Maradun local government area of the state.

He said apart from a message of condolences, the Governor had asked the security agencies to take the most decisive measures of address the deadly situation.

It could be recalled that on Saturday morning some armed bandits laid ambush on some members of a vigilante group and killed over twenty of them while they were on their way to offer reinforcement to the people of Sikkida community who were under attack by the bandits.

They also abducted over (30) women from Janbako community in the same Maradun local government council area.

Ten of the women escaped from captivity and while the police are insisting that they championed their rescue the locals said, the abductees freed themselves without the help of police or any security outfits.

 

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BANDITS KILL OVER (30) PERSONS IN SOKOTO

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Suspected bandits in their large number had launched deadly attacks on the people of Raka and Filin Gawa community of Tangaza local government area of Sokoto State.

The attack which resulted in the killing of over thirty persons left scores of others with critical injuries.

Apart from the number of those killed, four houses and some vehicles were also set ablaze by the bandits.

A source said, the bandits had been putting pressure on the locals to pay money in terms of fine before they were allowed to go to their farms.

“People of Tangaza and neighboring villages had been paying money to these bandits and to an extent that some communities such as Azam had to fled their homes because they had no money to pay to these bandits, and they had been putting pressure on them through constant threat of attacks and invasions.

Three months back they had invaded a village under Gwadabawa and rustled over (1,000) assorted livestock.

The source added that many communities had been under the rule of the armed bandits for sometimes now because the government could not do anything to save the people in the hand of these bandits.

The Sokoto State police Spokesperson ASP Ahmad Rufai has confirmed the incident via an interview with the BBC Hausa service on Monday morning.

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