Terrorists in North West have become state within state – Shehu Sani

A member of the 8th Senate from Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, says terrorists have become a state within a state in the north-western part of the country.

Senator Sani raised the alarm during an interview on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm on Tuesday.

“Virtually now, bandits in the North West have become a state within a state,” he said. “They have been able to establish governance structure in the sense that they don’t just kidnap and extort money, it has reached a point where they even install.

“According to reports, they install traditional rulers and imams.”

Bandits have continued to unleash mayhem in Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, and Niger among other northern states, killing many people and kidnapping hundreds of others.

The latest in the string of attacks was the incidnet in Zamfara where marauding gunmen killed scores of people.