{"id":38835,"date":"2024-06-24T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/it-will-take-decades-to-end-banditry-in-the-north-sultan-of-sokoto\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T15:05:38","slug":"it-will-take-decades-to-end-banditry-in-the-north-sultan-of-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/it-will-take-decades-to-end-banditry-in-the-north-sultan-of-sokoto\/","title":{"rendered":"It will take decades to end banditry in the North \u2013 Sultan of Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III, on Monday said it will take decades for the North-West to overcome banditry and insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar spoke at the North-West Peace and Security Summit in Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we must do is to challenge these bandits because we all know the consequences of banditry and insurgency on our lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it will take decades to get out of it if all we get out of it. We all know the consequences and the problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch expressed the readiness of traditional rulers to partner with security agencies and Northern governors to \u201csave our region from the numerous problems\u201d of banditry and insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>He believed that at the end of the summit, proposals to bring insurgency to the barest minimum for people to go about their lives and businesses would be arrived at.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, bandits have been on the prowl in Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Kano and Jigawa states.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people, mostly vulnerable persons, have been killed and displaced by the bloodthirsty marauders who mostly disguise as herders.<\/p>\n<p>It will take decades to end banditry in the North \u2013 Sultan of Sokoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6710,15,10115,9976,761],"tags":[8,3316,19063,432,764,180,1324,3967,7748,1286,1098,762,876],"class_list":["post-38835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banditry","category-news","category-north","category-sultan-of-sokoto","category-top-headlines","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-banditry","tag-decades","tag-end","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north","tag-sokoto","tag-sultan","tag-take","tag-the","tag-top","tag-will"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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