Security institute demands action over N50m levy on Zamfara market

The Institute of Security Nigeria, ISN, has condemned the reported imposition of a N50 cardinal levy and request for 100 livestock by non-state actors astatine Talata Mafara Market successful Zamfara State.

In a connection signed by its Deputy President and Chief Executive, Barrister Adebayo Akinade, the institute described the improvement arsenic an “act of warfare against the Nigerian authorities and its people.”

The ISN said the reported seven-day ultimatum issued to traders and residents required urgent authorities intervention, describing the concern arsenic a nationalist emergency.

It said the continued activities of terrorists, bandits and kidnappers were destroying lives, livelihoods, farms and markets portion creating a parallel transgression system susceptible of undermining nationalist information and economical stability.

The institute called connected the Federal and Zamfara State governments to dainty banditry levies and marketplace invasions arsenic coercion and economical sabotage, backed by coordinated information operations.

It besides called for a state-led securi...