Banditry: Troops don't respond to attacks, they await orders - Shinkafi claims

Shinkafi blasts soldiers for ‘waiting on Abuja’ amid insecurity in Zamfara

Foremost security analyst and former Zamfara governorship candidate, Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has called on security agencies in Zamfara State to take decisive action against armed bandits instead of making “untenable excuses” of awaiting orders from Abuja. Speaking in Abuja on Sunday, September 7, Shinkafi said the Nigerian Constitution places the security and welfare of citizens as the government’s primary responsibility, yet Zamfara reside…

Banditry: Troops don't respond to attacks, they await orders - Shinkafi claims

A former governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has called on security agencies, especially military personnel posted to the state to crush the escalating armed banditry and stop what he described as the untenable excuse of waiting for orders from Abuja. Shinkafi, a former National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, recalled that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, recently warned…

Shinkafi Decries Security Lapses In Zamfara

In a scathing critique of Nigeria’s faltering fight against armed banditry, renowned security expert and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Dr. Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has demanded that military personnel in Zamfara State immediately dismantle bandit networks without waiting for directives from Abuja. Describing the insecurity in the state as a “decade-long nightmare,” Shinkafi accused troops of shirking their duties while bandits ravage…