By Mohammed Munirat Nasir
Zamfara state Governor, Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar has ordered security agencies to ensure all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state are evacuated to their respective homes within one week.
Yari gave the order at a security meeting held in his country home in Talata Marafa town on Monday.
The Governor who briefed journalists after the security meeting said since peace has returned to all the affected communities, there is no need for the IDPs to remain in the camps across the state.
He added that the IDPs when they return home will not be left alone as the security operatives will remain in all the affected communities for a while until when peace was finally restored.
Yari said his administration is committed to ensuing that peace reign in Zamfara state by fighting the bandits and other criminals to standstill.
“This is a total war against the bandits and we must not allow any thing to deter us from crushing the bad elements hurting and killing our people”, he said.
Yari said though the state government is adequately taking care of the IDPs but it is better for them to be at their respective homes rather than in camps scattered in the state.
Over 5000 of the about 21,000 IDPs in Maradun, Shinkafi, Zurmi and Tsafe local government areas are said to have so far returned to their homes following the return of peace in the affected areas.
During the meeting, Yari was decorated as state grand patrol for Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) by the state Commissioner of Police Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson assisted by Deputy Governor,, Ibrahim Wakkala Muhammad.