Suspension: Eight Zamfara Lawmakers Allege Threat To Life, Flee State

The eight lawmakers suspended by the Zamfara State House of Assembly, on Sunday, said they had left the state following attacks by political thugs for exposing the increasing wave of insecurity in the state.

The eight lawmakers suspended by the Zamfara State House of Assembly, on Sunday, said they had left the state following attacks by political thugs for exposing the increasing wave of insecurity in the state.

Recalled that Zamfara State House of Assembly on  27 February suspended eight lawmakers for allegedly holding an illegal plenary.

The eight suspended lawmakers are Bashir Aliyu (PDP-Gummi 1); Amiru Keta (PDP-Tsafe West); Nasiru Abdullahi (PDP-Maru South); Bashir Masama (PDP-Bukkuyum North); Faruku Dosara (APC-Maradun 1); Ibrahim Tukur (APC-Bakura Constituency); Shamsudeen Hassan (APC Talata-Mafara North) and Bashiru Sarkin-Zango (PDP-Bungudu West).
While addressing a press conference in Zaria, Kaduna State, the lawmakers claimed that certain security officers had been sent to hunt them down for no apparent reason, forcing them to go into hiding.
In a statement, suspended lawmakers' representative Bashir Aliyu threatened to keep speaking unless steps were taken to reduce Zamfara's extreme levels of insecurity. 
He claimed that their effort to alter the Assembly's leadership was motivated by their desire to highlight the Speaker and his deputy's purportedly protracted absence from the state. 
But instead of trying to make the state safe, he claimed that certain state forces had started harassing them. 
He added that some of the suspended lawmakers were attacked by thugs linked to a politician in the state during the wedding of the Deputy Governor’s daughter on 24 February.
He said a letter with Reference No. ZMHA/ADM/223/Vol. 1, dated March 7, has now directed them to return the official vehicles in their care to the Clerk of the state Assembly within seven days.
Aliyu, representing the Gumi 1 constituency, said, “We want to notify you that democracy is in danger in Zamfara  State despite the prevailing insecurity and other challenges bedeviling the people of the state.
“We, hence, call for the intervention of key stakeholders to salvage the situation.”