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The house of representatives has asked the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to shut down telecommunication services in three LGAs of Sokoto state. This development comes days after NCC instructed all telecommunication companies to shut down their services in Zamfara over lingering insecurity in the state.
At Thursday’s plenary session, the green chamber said if the directive is replicated in Bodinga/Dange-Shuni/Tureta federal constituency of Sokoto, security operatives will be able to crack down on kidnappings and banditry.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Shehu Kakale from Sokoto state.
“Genuinely panicked and alarmed by the amassing numbers of bandits and terrorists in their hundreds flooding the forests of the aforementioned local governments from Zamfara state, more than 100 households with over 500 people and families are currently displaced from Tureta and Dange-Shuni local governments into towns and urban areas or the local government headquarters with growing and worsening exodus of women, children and the vulnerable into the state capital of Sokoto city resulting in acute additional humanitarian crises in the state,” he said.
Leading the debate on the motion, Kakale said there has been “gruesome murder of innocent people” in the three LGAs in the last few weeks.
Sokoto is among the north-western states that have seen a surge in banditry and kidnappings in recent times.
