Kaduna govt recovers 500,000 hectares of farmland from bandits – Commissioner claims 

About 500,000 hectares of farmland antecedently occupied by bandits successful Kaduna State person been recovered pursuing improved information measures by the authorities government, enabling farmers to instrumentality to their farms.

The authorities Commissioner for Information and Culture, Ahmed Maiyaki, disclosed this astatine a gala nighttime organised by the Kano Correspondents’ Chapel arsenic portion of its yearly retreat successful Kaduna.

Maiyaki explained that the authorities government’s efforts to tackle insecurity had yielded affirmative results successful parts of the state.

He said bandits antecedently controlled agrarian communities, imposed taxes, dictated farming activities and adjacent collected dowries that residents were expected to pay.

He observed that the concern had go truthful atrocious that farmers could nary longer entree their farms, but said bid had present returned to the affected communities done community-led information initiatives and aboriginal informing systems.

According to him, “The medication had combined kinetic measures with non-kinetic approaches by empowering accepted rulers, spiritual lea...