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The Zamfara State Police Command has said that it freed nine children who had been kidnapped by bandits from the Gora-Namaye Community in the state’s Maradun Local Government Area.

The announcement was made in a statement released on Sunday in Gusau by the Public Relations Officer for the Command, ASP Yazid Abubakar.

He said, “On 3rd June, 2023, at about 2014hrs information was received from the district Head of Gora-Namaye village in Maradun LGA that nine children, comprising males and females who were sent by their parents to fetch firewood in the bush were intercepted and abducted by armed bandits.

“Receiving the report, the joint police and other security agencies mobilised to the scene and commenced a search and rescue operation that led to the rescue of the children.”

The Command has already unconditionally reunited the victims with their families, the police spokeswoman continued.

“Efforts are still on in tracing the hoodlums for prosecution,” Abubakar said.

According to The News Agency of Nigeria, bandits invaded some communities in the same Maradun LGA on Saturday, murdering a number of innocent people.

The governor of Oyo state, Governor Seyi Makinde, has broken his silence on why he fired the head of the Park Management System (PMS), Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, aka Auxiliary, claiming that a state cannot have two governments because of the conflict of interest that resulted.

The governor revealed this on Sunday at a prayer of gratitude held at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Aremo, Ibadan, to celebrate his Omituntun 2.0.

Recall that Makinde announced the dissolution of the PMS led by the former NURTW chairman on Tuesday through his former chief of staff, Segun Ogunwuyi.

On the other side, the Oyo Police Command issued a wanted notice for Auxillary in connection with attempted murder, causing great bodily injury, selling weapons, murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping at the Oke-ogun and Ibarapa axis of the State.

The governor claimed that by dissolving PMS, he used the heavy stick because he believed that no important work could be done in an uneasy environment.

However, Makinde promised the congregation at the Thanksgiving service that the government will make all necessary changes to the PMS to guarantee that those stirring up problems were dealt with.

The governor said, “Before the last election, it wasn’t as if there is no thugs but we called them and told them the new Oyo State we want. We don’t want them to fight themselves, we don’t want fight to break from our garages every time.”

“We told them, don’t fight anybody. if we are re-elected, we shall ensure we unite you so that everyone can get what belongs to him or her for people and the government to operate in the atmosphere of peace.”

“But one of them said he can’t work with others. so I said two governments cannot operate in the state, there will only be one government.”

The governor claimed that all of his accomplishments during his first tenure required God’s help.

The improvement of people’s conditions, he said, is what matters most in Omituntun 2.0, and the government must take all reasonable steps to make this improvement painless and conducive to compliance.