Earlier this week, I encountered a document titled I Am A Bandit: A Decade of Research in Zamfara State’s Bandit Den by Dr Ahmed Rufa’i of Usman Danfodiyo University. The title stopped me. The content shook me. It is a plain and clinical excavation of how a country allowed a small seed of neglect to grow into a vast industry of violence. What began as a whisper in the forests matured into a roar that now dominates the security terrain of…
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