CSO rejects calls to revive Yari-era policies, insists security involves strategy not noise

CSO rejects calls to revive Yari-era policies, insists security involves strategy not noise

The Arewa Coalition for Peace, Reform and Good Governance, ACPRGG, has rejected calls for Governor Lawal to adopt the security strategies used under Abdul’aziz Yari, describing them as ineffective and largely responsible for the entrenchment of armed groups across Zamfara’s forests and rural communities. The group alleged that the strategies under Yari did not defeat banditry but emboldened it, saying armed groups expanded, weapons proliferated,…