From Salisu Zakari Maradun, Gusau
Farmers in Zamfara, particularly peasant ones, may not be able to go to their farms even this year following the resurface of the activities of the bandits in the State, checks by The Authority had shown.
According to the checks, the activities of the bandits, which have now taken another dimension, have reached a point where even a child of two years was not left behind.
The bandits who have recently abducted over 40 innocent elderly people in Magami village of Maradun local government, are now going village by village on their bikes carrying three persons each to attack farmers who are there preparing their portions for the year’s farming activities.
The Authority also gathered reliably that the hoodlums did not only stop there as many of them are now in the habit of destroying the seeds that have already been sowed.
Others, continued the checks, are trapping people, especially women who are going to fetch water in outskirt of their respective villages and kidnap them, and in the process, some of them die.
A number of people, particularly aggrieved farmers who spoke to our reporter with regard to the painful situation, expressed their dissatisfaction over the situation.
One of them, who also said he is in his 70s, and a father of eleven, told our reporter that even last year he was not opportune to farm and he had to sell some of his effects to buy food stuffs. “I was about to lose everything, including my life when I realised that I would not be allowed to farm,” narrated Alhaji Garba Maidamma.
