{"id":45375,"date":"2021-06-11T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=45375"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:05:42","slug":"zamfara-govt-cancels-democracy-day-celebration-asks-citizens-to-defend-themselves-against-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/zamfara-govt-cancels-democracy-day-celebration-asks-citizens-to-defend-themselves-against-bandits\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara govt cancels Democracy Day celebration, asks citizens to defend themselves against bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zamfara State Government has cancelled this year\u2019s Democracy Day celebration due to security challenges facing the state.<\/p>\n<p>The state also directed its citizens to defend themselves against attacks by bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Gusau today during a prayer session organized by the state government to seek divine intervention against banditry, Governor Bello Matawalle said, \u201cThe insecurity situation has defied solution, as such people should defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the people of the state to defend themselves if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/update-one-student-confirmed-killed-as-armed-bandits-attack-nuhu-bamali-polytechnic-in-kaduna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bandits<\/a> attack them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy government has approved that whenever the bandits attack you, do not wait for the security personnel to come to your rescue. You should rise up and protect yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy government has also planned to recruit locals from each community who will be in charge of monitoring their villages to ensure that bandits do not attack them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the traditional rulers and community leaders to make sure that only people of proven integrity are recruited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matawalle also urged the traditional rulers to fish out the bad eggs in their communities that were conniving with the bandits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zamfara State Government has cancelled this year\u2019s Democracy Day celebration due to security challenges facing the state. The state also directed its citizens to defend themselves against attacks by bandits. Speaking in Gusau today during a prayer session organized by the state government to seek divine intervention against banditry, Governor Bello Matawalle said, \u201cThe insecurity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[210,289,83,641],"class_list":["post-45375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-bandits","tag-democracy-day","tag-insecurity","tag-zamfara-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zamfara govt cancels Democracy Day celebration, asks citizens to defend themselves against bandits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zamfara State Government has cancelled this year\u2019s Democracy Day celebration due to security challenges facing the state\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/zamfara-govt-cancels-democracy-day-celebration-asks-citizens-to-defend-themselves-against-bandits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zamfara govt cancels Democracy Day celebration, asks citizens to defend themselves against bandits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zamfara State Government has cancelled this year\u2019s Democracy Day celebration due to security challenges facing the state. 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