By IBRAHIM KANOMA, Gusau
The Zamfara State PDP social media handlers have called on the security agencies to immediately arrest an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Bello Bakyasuwa, and make him to answer questions in respect of attempted murder of Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Nasiru Magarya, and abduction of Jangebe school girls.
Speaking during a press conference, the social media handlers represented by Malam Aminu Mohammed, said there was an attempt to assassinate the speaker when he went to Jangebe to handover the rescued abducted school girls of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Jangebe, recently, to their parents, which led to smashing of his official and staff cars with many of the entourage narrowly escaping with injuries.
Mohammed said when the speaker and his entourage arrived Jangebe, intelligence report indicated that there was suspecious characters planning evil against them by making an attempt to assassinate the speaker, adding that hoodlums were stationed at Jangebe waiting to carry out the dastardly act of which Bello Bakyasuwa was suspected organizer.
It may be recalled that Bello Bakyasuwa had accused the speaker and his entourage of killing two people during the frackers.
The group, in the press conference address, said: “In his address to you on Friday, 26th March 2021, he (Bello Bakyasuwa) accused the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly Rt Hon Nasiru Muazu Magarya of killing two persons at Jangebe, when the speaker went to the town to hand over the rescued female students of Government Science Secondary School Jangebe on……..to their parents.
“It is against this backdrop that the Coalition of PDP Social Media Users deemed it necessary to address you this afternoon on the matter.
“First of all, every good citizen of Zamfara state and beyond knows the efforts of the Zanfara state government under the able leadership of His Excellency, Governor Bello Muhammed Matawallen Maradun in the safe rescue of the students and handing them over to their respective families unharmed.
“When the speaker and his entourage who accompanied the school girls arrived Jangebe, intelligent reports indicated that there were strangers of suspicious character full of the town planning evils against the speaker and his entourage.
“There was an attempt to assassinate the speaker by the hoodlums, stationed in almost all the nooks and crannies of Jangebe, waiting to carry out their dastardly act of the assassination.
“It is this attempted murder of the Hon Speaker that led to the smashing of his official and staff cars, with many of the members of his entourage narrowly escaped.
As a result, security agencies including soldiers who were stationed on alert to guard and ensure the security of lives and property of the inhabitants of the town were attacked by the hoodlums.
“It is in the public domain that, since then, the security agencies have searching for the perpetrators of the abduction, the assassination attempt and the organisers of the protest, including their paymasters.
“With this accusation, therefore, we are happy to inform you the press and the general public that Bello Soja Bakyasuwa who has been on the run to escape arrest and interrogations since when he heard of the security looking for him, but now thought the matter died naturally and decided come back to organise another atrocity against the state, is a testimony that he is part of the perpetrators of the heinous act.
“By this also, he has now exposed who his paymasters are, an together they masterminded the abduction itself and the attempted murder of the Speaker. We are therefore calling on the security agencies in the state to immediately arrest Bello Soja and his paymasters to answer questions in respect of the abduction of Jagebe school girls, the attempted murder of the Speaker Rt Hon Nasiru Muazu Magarya and the protest against the speaker’s entourage in Jangebe,” it said.
