A notorious leader of bandits in Zamfara State, Ado Aleru, has been turbaned as Sarkin Fulani (Chief of Fulanis) of Yandoto Emirate by the Emir of Yandoto Daji Emirate, Aliyu Garba Marafa.
The turbaning ceremony took place on Saturday evening, hours after the emirate had suspended the process indefinitely.
Several bandit group leaders and lieutenants arrived at the venue of the occasion on several motorbikes to celebrate with Aleru.
A resident of the area who was at the ceremony told newsmen that the decision to make the bandits’ leader a chief was aimed at finding lasting peace in Tsafe and the Yandoton Daji Emirates, and other areas that were regularly attacked by Aleru-led gangs.
An official from the palace who pleaded anonymity also told newsmen that the title of Sarkin Fulani was conferred on Alero considering his present status as a ‘peace-maker’ within the emirate.
The chieftaincy title was given to him in appreciation of the peace reconciliation” he said.
Asked if the state government was aware of the development, he responded in the affirmative.
Efforts to get reactions from the state government were not successful as the Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Mamman Tsafe, who is also from the local government area neither responded to several phone calls put across to him, nor reply to the text message sent.
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