Northern Emancipation Network (NEN), yesterday, lamented the high level of insecurity in Zamfara State in the last three weeks, and asked the state Governor, Lawal Dauda, to leave Abuja and return to Zamfara to tackle insecurity.

The group, in a statement by the Secretary General, Suleiman Abbah, described the rate of insecurity as uncontrollable. They also blamed the governor for failing to combat worsening insecurity in the state, while spending almost all the time in the Federal Capital, Abuja.

Abbah said that in spite of previous government’s efforts to curtail insecurity, the situation in the state is deteriorating, saying northern youths are not impressed with the new governor’s ‘ attitude.

He said: “A governor who does not appear interested in seeking answers to the challenges of security to which the state is exposed, the people continue to live and die under the dictates of killers, kidnappers rapists and sundry criminal groups that have in recent times, deprived them of the rights to live in peace and security.

“Killers and other criminals appear to have sensed a paralysing vacuum at the highest levels of leadership in the state since the inception of the new government, and they grow more confident and acquire more competence in subverting the state and peoples security.”

They lamented that for the very first time, the popular Shinkafi market had been completely overrun by criminal attackers and all activities crippled and deserted.(The Guardian)