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Just in: Zamfara youths in violent protest against banditry, kidnapping
Angry youths armed with weapons have staged a violent protest along the Gusau – Kaura Namoda Highway in Zamfara State, NewsWireNGR has learnt.
According to a report from Channels Television, the protesters occupied the road very early on Monday over the incessant attacks by bandits in their communities.
One of the commuters who was trapped along the road explained that the youths blocked the highway along Kurya junction and began to destroy public vehicles travelling along the road.
The protesters lamented an increasing spate of murders and kidnappings that the people in the state have suffered at the hands of emboldened bandits.
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