No fewer than 36 cattle rustlers in Kano State have surrendered their weapons with a promise to abandon cattle rustling and other armed robbery activities in Gomo village, Sumaila Local Government Area of the state.
This was in response to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s earlier offer of amnesty to cattle rustlers in the state who decide to stop the criminal activities.
While receiving the repentant rustlers at Gomo village, Governor Ganduje said that his administration would forward a bill to the Kano State House of Assembly that will seek to address the problem of cattle rustling in the state.
He explained that the State Government was already winning the war against cattle rustling and other criminal activities bothering the state at large.
He promised to provide the rustlers with the necessary skills that would make them more relevant in the society and make going back to illegal activities unattractive.
The Kano State Police Commissioner, Musa Katsina, while handing over the repentant cattle rustlers, told the governor that what was left of the cattle rustling were mop-up operations.
He also disclosed that various weapons were submitted by the cattle thieves to the police as a requirement for the police to accept their surrender.
In the same vein, the Kano State Government has formed an amnesty committee for cattle rustlers who wish to lay down their arms.
Also, one person has been confirmed dead following an encounter between men of Kano State Police Command and suspected Fulani cattle rustlers on Saturday.
The command equally said on Sunday that two rustlers were killed in a shootout with men of the command, who recovered 441 cattle from them.
This is just as four suspected cattle rustlers were apprehended and 340 cattle recovered from another operation.