{"id":1152582,"date":"2022-07-18T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/zamfara-govt-suspends-emir-for-giving-notorious-bandit-leader-chieftaincy-title\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:48:10","slug":"zamfara-govt-suspends-emir-for-giving-notorious-bandit-leader-chieftaincy-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/zamfara-govt-suspends-emir-for-giving-notorious-bandit-leader-chieftaincy-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Govt Suspends Emir For Giving \u2019Notorious Bandit Leader\u2019 Chieftaincy Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Zamfara State Government has suspended the Emir of Birnin \u2018Yandoto of Tsafe Local Government Area, Aliyu Marafa, for conferring a chieftaincy title to a \u201cnotorious bandit leader\u201d.<\/p>\n

Secretary to the State Government, Kabiru Sardauna, announced the suspension in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Aleru was turbaned as Sarkin Fulani (Chief of Fulani) of Yandoto Emirate by the emir.<\/p>\n

News of the turbaning ceremony along with photos went viral, generating outcry and outrage.<\/p>\n

Apart from suspending the emir, Governor Bello Matawalle approved the appointment of a Committee to investigate the circumstances leading to the action of the Emir.<\/p>\n

The committee has Yahaya Goro as chairman and Musa Garba as secretary. Members are Yahay Kanoma, Muhammed Magaji, Lawal Zannah, Isa Moriki.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, Alh. Mahe Garba Marafa, who is the District Head of \u2018Yandoto is hereby assigned to take charge of the affairs of the Emirate,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

A source told newsmen that the decision to make the bandits\u2019 leader a chief was aimed at finding lasting peace in Tsafe and the Yandoton Daji Emirates, and other areas that were regularly attacked by Aleru-led gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was aimed at providing lasting peace in the emirate, the emir told us that there is a peace accord between the emirate and the bandit group,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Zamfara State Government has suspended the Emir of Birnin \u2018Yandoto of Tsafe Local Government Area, Aliyu Marafa, for conferring a chieftaincy title to a \u201cnotorious bandit leader\u201d. Secretary to the State Government, Kabiru Sardauna, announced the suspension in a statement on Sunday. Aleru was turbaned as Sarkin Fulani (Chief of Fulani) of Yandoto Emirate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}