Outlawed Yansakai group allegedly kill, maim people in Zamfara

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi with agency report

The outlawed Yansakai vigilance group had allegedly gone on rampage, killing and maiming innocent villagers in Zamfara State.
The group was said to have been set up by the immediate past government of Hon Abdulazeez Yari, however, on assumption of office two years ago, the Governor Bello Mattawalle led administration outlawed the vigilance group and abolished it from operating in Zamfara.
However, the group has remained adamant, causing mayhem and allegedly killing people.
Yansakai is allegedly led by a former Commissioner in the state, who is suspected to be the brain behind all the nefarious activities of the outlawed vigilance group.
The notorious and controversial vigilance group was created during the tenure of the former Governor Abdulazeez Yari, during which about 500 Yansakai members were said to have been recruited across the 17 Emirates in Zamfara State, though without any Act of State House of Assembly backing their operations and existence.
It was alleged that the outlawed vigilance group had planned to go into Fulani settlements for attack, so that they will retaliate, all designed to mischievously blackmailing the Governor Bello Mattawalle government and the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal government that they failed to provide security for the lives and property of the people of Zamfara State.
Recall that the issue of insecurity, which comprises armed banditry, cattle rustling, kidnapping, killings and the setting of villages ablaze by gangs of armed bandits and criminals elements were in existence before the inception of Mattawalle administration.
It is alleged that the mobilization of these Yansakai is observed from Tureta LGA of Sokoto state, from Kuruwa, Damri, Sabon Garin Damri villages and from Anka, Bukkuyum and Talata mafara LGAS.
It was noted that the group mostly don’t discriminate between who is a bandit and who is not, making the possibility of more casualties higher, as other settlements were equally ransacked.

Furthermore, it was gathered that more Yansakai members are now sighted going back into Dogon Karfe forest, as armed bandits are said to be regrouping.