{"id":112405,"date":"2024-06-05T21:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=112405"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:26:27","slug":"police-arrest-zamfara-assembly-member-former-lg-chairman-for-banditry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/police-arrest-zamfara-assembly-member-former-lg-chairman-for-banditry\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Zamfara Assembly member, former LG chairman for banditry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1801043087635946858\" data-legacy-message-id=\"18fe972557b69d6a\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":1ao\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":1ap\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Commissioner of Police in Zamfara State, Muhammad Dalijan, has announced the arrest of a member of the State House of Assembly and a former local government chairman in connection with banditry in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Dalijan made this known on Wednesday while hosting the officer in charge of the Counterterrorism Unit, under the United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime, Thomas Parker, at the command headquarters in Gusau, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, however, failed to reveal the names of the lawmaker and former council boss arrested in connection with the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Dalijan also appealed to the United Nations to help establish a forensic laboratory to address the challenge of going to Lagos to conduct forensic analysis and also urged the UN to replicate in Zamfara what they did in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner also sought the global body\u2019s assistance in training on investigation and establishing forensic laboratories to accelerate the investigation and prosecution of suspected criminals.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that crime rates have reduced in the state due to the ongoing efforts of security agencies, in collaboration with Community Protection Guards, to flush out the suspected terrorists who migrated from Maiduguri to Zamfara in Northwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Parker said the UN delegation was in the state on the appeal that Governor Dauda Lawal had made to the UN to assist the state in tackling the insecurity surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Parker, who said he visited the police command to gather more information about the state\u2019s existential threats, informed Dalijan of the UN\u2019s readiness to conduct an assessment of the security situation first to understand the causes and challenges and how to help deal with the threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"WhmR8e\" data-hash=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\">\n<div class=\"gB xu\">\n<div class=\"ip iq\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of Police in Zamfara State, Muhammad Dalijan, has announced the arrest of a member of the State House of Assembly and a former local government chairman in connection&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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