By our reporter 8.6.2026
50 elders who were on a mission to talk things over with criminal gangs terrorising Magamin Diddi community in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been seized by the bandits’ kingpin known as Jammo.
According to Daily Trust reports Jammo is the bandits’ kingpin in charge of Muntsira Forest in Maradun LGA of Zamfara.
Confirming the development Maradun Local Government chairman, Hon. Bello Dosara said the community members decided to make peace with the bandits without the permission of the government.
“We are against reconciliation with the bandits and Governor Dauda Lawal never supported that, but unknown to us the people chose to go on with it,” Dosara said.
He said that Jammo had blocked the community from accessing the market, but the government made contingency plans for the community to go to the market, yet they went on their own for a peace mission.
The LG councilor for Magamin Diddi community, Bello Husseini said it was the bandits who requested for the negotiations after the Zamfara State security outfit ‘Askarawa” killed two of his lieutenants and took away their rifles.
According to him, the communities sent in a 50-man committee and on their arrival, Jammo betrayed and kidnapped them but later released 11 people.
“We are against any form of reconciliation because we know they are not trustworthy, they can speak one true statement against a hundred lies.”
“The people he held hostage were elderly and he had no reason to hold them hostage; he betrayed them by saying he is tired of banditry and opted for reconciliation,” Husseini said.
The LG chairman and the councilor call on the army to intensify attacks on the hideouts of the bandits.
“They have never been attacked by any security forces and we are optimistic that if the government wants to help these people, one patrol five kilometers away from the village will yield a very good positive result.”
Terror gangs...riding