The Zamfara Police Command has recovered a total of 100 guns from ‘repentant’ local militia group members in the state.
The State Commissioner of Police, Usman Nagogo said that the guns were imitations of AK47, RPG, LMC calibre which were locally fabricated as Dane guns.
The Governor of Zamfara, Bello Matawalle set up peace and reconciliation initiatives to enable bandits and other militia group members to renounce their criminal ways and surrender their sophisticated arms. While the disarmament progresses, the number of guns being surrendered would increase.
To this effect, the command in Gummi has received a total of 49 sophisticated weapons most AK 47s from repentant bandits who terrorised the state for decades.