By Sam Kayode
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has directed the closure of four media outlets in the state.
The affected media houses include: Radio Nigeria, Pride FM, Gamji FM and NTA Gusau.
The directive is believed to be in line with their transmission of political activities of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against his directive that no political activity must take place due to porous security in the state.
Reports from Gusau stated that the government has asked the police to arrest all those found guilty of flouting the total ban on political gatherings in the entire state, which he said was due to insecurity.
Sources told newsmen in Gusau that some news men were equally arrested for disobedience of the ban but it is not clear if they had been released by Sunday afternoon.
Zamfara state has been under the lingering torments of dangerous bandits who are believed to have infiltrated council areas around the state capital.
Based on reliable intel, the Governor directed indigenes to acquire licences to procure their own weapons in case the bandits strike unexpectedly from any direction of the state capital where residents of most affected council areas have fled to.
Most security watchers were expecting Matawalle to approach the state House of Assembly to sign a law for the formation of the first fully armed State police in the country which will give others badly humiliated by banditry to sign theirs too and form the long awaited state police with a view to assisting the grossly inadequate federal police in the country.
