Nigeria, June 14 -- The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, on Saturday said he will implement a report submitted to him in 2019 on how to tackle banditry in the state.

The governor had set up a committee on the issue. It's report said some traditional rulers were colluding with bandits, then recommended that the governor dethroned them.

The report of the committee, headed by a former Inspector-General of Police, Muhammad Abubakar, covered June 2011 to May 29, 2019.

The report disclosed that over N3 billion was collected by bandits as ransom from relations of 3,672 persons abducted in the state within the period.

Also, it said 4,983 women were widowed, 25,050 children orphaned and 190,340 persons displaced by banditry over the...