Following the escalation of insecurity in Kebbi State, the State Deputy Governor, Col. Ismaila Yombe (rtd), has relocated to Zuru emirate with a view to bringing an end the excesses of Yan-Sa-Kai (Volunteered vigilante) in the area.
Recently, the Yan-Sa-Kai in the emirate were alleged to have been threatening, Judges and Lawyers over cases that were not decided to their favour.
They were also said to have engaged in extra-judicial killings.
Yombe, disclosed this on Saturday while fielding questions from Journalists in Birnin Kebbi saying, he had already directed the Yan-Sa-kai with a stern warning to fish out the bad elements amongst them in order for the law to take its course.
The deputy governor, who was visibly angry with the Yan-Sa-Kai’s lawlessness in the area, said, if they failed to root out the unscrupulous amongst them as directed, emphasising that the government would help them to do so in order to deal decisively with the criminally minded ones.
Yombe, who apologized to the commissioner for Justice over the recent attack on a Lawyer in the area, vowed to returned sanity in to the activities of the Yan-Sa-Kai, which was originally established to voluntarily assist security agencies in promoting peace in their fragile security communities.
“No any serious government will fall its arms while watching few unscrupulous trying to set in anarchy in the state. I have been with the Yan-Sa-Kai, where we have reminded them on their original role on which they were established.
“I also directed them to fish out the bad eggs amongst them otherwise, government will take over and do the needful.”
Court activities have been paralyzed in Kebbi following a three-weeks boycott embarked upon by lawyers in the state as a result of a threat to their lives by the volunteers in Zuru emirate.
