Army bans motorcycles in Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Niger and others.

Army bans motorcycles in Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Niger and others.

The Nigerian Army has restricted the utilization of bikes inside the hinterland, and backwoods of Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna, Kebbi and Niger states, saying it watched the usage of cruisers by desperados, hijackers, criminal components and their teammates to execute wrongdoings.

The military saw that while the boycott would make a few burdens occupants, it was needful to handle banditry and killings in the North-West locale, including that anybody discovered utilizing bikes inside the named zones would be taken for a brigand.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sagir Musa, stated, “The military has after some time watched the utilization of bikes by outlaws, ruffians, criminal components and their associates as empowering agents to execute their wrongdoings, particularly in the states inside the North-West district.

“This educated the order to boycott the utilization of bikes inside the hinterland, especially around the backwoods where the outlaws, lawbreakers, and hijackers rest and all around where troops are leading tasks nearby other security offices.

“While this may make a few burdens some decent residents in the zone, the need to utilize all methods conceivable to stop the obnoxious exercises of these outlaws over the North-West piece of Nigeria need no accentuation.

He included, “The overall population, especially in the North-West and a few pieces of North-Central in Nigeria where Exercise Harbin Kunama is continuous, are charged to shoulder with the military as purposeful endeavors are being made to battle the uncertainty hazard progressing inside the zone.”