In an effort to bring lasting peace to the state, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of additional 6,000 soldiers to Zamfara while offering an olive branch to repentant bandits, according to Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle. Governor Matawalle stated this in a state-wide broadcast a few hours after traditional rulers in the state told the service chiefs, who visited the state, that there were over 30,000 bandits in Zamfara forests, a number that far outweighs the less than 10,000 troops deployed to the state to tackle insecurity. The directive by...