From Salisu Zakari Maradun, Gusau
A combination of hardship, hunger and insecurity have pushed a good number of Zamfara residents into unimaginable and abhorrent behaviors, findings by The Authority in the state asserts.
This is as e-verification introduced by governor Dauda Lawal to establish genuine workers in the state has left many stranded as they could not afford to run around.
Following the unbearable condition which they blamed on the governor’s inability to provide for them unlike the previous governors, the rate of crime has continued to increase involving a number of people across the state, checks by our reporter had also shown.
According to the checks, many people including women have resorted to committing crimes aimed at getting what to eat and also solve some of their domestic problems among which are school fees and food which are highly lacking among thousands of households in the state.
According to the checks, many residents have fled the state which has already been overtaken by bandits.
Others, continued the checks, have resorted to selling their assets, such as vehicles, residences and even kitchen utensils all with a view to remain alive while others were highly indebted and could not settle their debts easily.
The checks also revealed that as a result of poor living condition among the people which had also deprived some parents of the opportunity to control their respective families as they could not take care of them properly, prostitution has at the time of filing in this report become the order of the day.
“Actually, we are suffering”, stated one, Kabiru Alhaji, a resident of Filin Gunza of Gusau metropolis. a father of eight. Alhaji explained that for the past 20 days, he had not cooked anything in his house despite the fact that the federal government claimed it had made substantial provision of food items to all the states of the federation, Zamfara inclusive.
“What we need here more than anything else is peace, and it was what pushed us to go for him during the March 28 gubernatorial election having told us that he would make sure that the issue of insecurity in the state was solved but to our dismay, he does not even want people to re-mind him of that,” revealed Malam Attahir Yahuza, a retired civil servant and who is yet to collect his retirement benefit.
Yahuza also condemned the introduction of e-verification among the civil servants across the state insisting that the governor always brings strange things which are not known to the people just to divert their attention. “Look at this e-verification this man has brought in the state, and as a result of it, many people are currently in the captivity of bandits who were trapped on their way to Gusau and many of them who came successfully are here in Gusau stranded as they did not have the means of returning to their respective towns and villages after they finished the verification.” He lamented.
