A member of the House of Assembly in Zamfara State and former local government chairman has been arrested by men of the Zamfara State Police Command for having a connection to banditry in the state, News About Nigeria reports.
The Commissioner of Police in Zamfara State, Muhammad Dalijan, disclosed this on Wednesday while hosting the officer in charge of the Counterterrorism Unit under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Thomas Parker, at the command headquarters in Gusau, the state capital.
He noted that crime rates have reduced in the state due to the ongoing efforts of security agencies, in collaboration with Community Protection Guards, to flush out the suspected terrorists who migrated from Maiduguri to Zamfara in northwest Nigeria.
He commended the Command and other security agencies for their efforts in seeing that the state is rid of crime and insecurity, and that the lives and properties of the people are secured.
The commissioner, however, failed to reveal the names of the lawmaker and former council boss arrested in connection with the crime.
Dalijan appealed to the United Nations (UN) to assist the state government in establishing a forensic laboratory in order to help address the challenge of going to Lagos to conduct forensic analysis, urging the UN to replicate in Zamfara what they did in Maiduguri.
He also sought the global body’s assistance in training on investigation and establishing forensic laboratories to accelerate the investigation and prosecution of suspected criminals.
Parker said the UN delegation was in the state on the appeal that Governor Dauda Lawal had made to the UN to assist the state in tackling the insecurity surrounding it.
