Speaker 1: Niger State Governor Muhammadu Maru Bago has reversed self over
Speaker 1: arresting anyone with dreadlocks, a matching order he gave on
Speaker 1: Tuesday at stakeholders security meeting in the state to security
Speaker 1: operatives in the state, which is one of the states
Speaker 1: in Nigeria most troubled by bandits and terrorists, clarifying that
Speaker 1: the arrest order is only meant for a particular group
Speaker 1: of people suspected to be a member of a particular
Speaker 1: secret cult group that carries dreadlocks as a symbol of identification.
Speaker 1: This a well known social media influencer, Martin's Vincents aka Veridarkman,
Speaker 1: had condemned the action of the governor, saying that if
Speaker 1: the governor considered dreadlocks as a sign of insecurity, it
Speaker 1: therefore means the governor should be the first to be
Speaker 1: arrested for carrying a monster beards. Veridarkman, in a swift
Speaker 1: reaction to the governor's order on Tuesday, said most criminals
Speaker 1: like Boko Haram terrorists often dressed responsibly and they are
Speaker 1: hardly seen putting on dreadlocks hairstyles, adding that the governor
Speaker 1: should focus on providing jobs for the thousands of unemployed
Speaker 1: youths in the state, which he said is the major
Speaker 1: cause of insecurity, hence urging the governor to avoid the
Speaker 1: misleading narratives of trying to tie in security to hairstyles.
Speaker 1: According to Varidakman, the kind of misleading narratives and actions
Speaker 1: taken by the Niger State Governor Muhammad of Amarubago may
Speaker 1: be the reason why the insecurity in Nigeria probably has
Speaker 1: continued to be on the high side because the criminals
Speaker 1: do take advantage of the inability of the government to
Speaker 1: know the true modis operandi and thus the governments always
Speaker 1: chased after irrelevant issues and meaningless issues of concern, while
Speaker 1: the terrorists and other criminals dressed behaved in a more
Speaker 1: responsible ways to continue to terrorize the country. Governor Muhammad
Speaker 1: Ofmarubago had on Tuesday said from today henceforth, anybody you
Speaker 1: find with dreadlock in Niger State, arrests him, barb his
Speaker 1: hair and find him. Parents should warn their children from
Speaker 1: this moment. It's one hundred percent fire for fire, demolish
Speaker 1: houses hammering criminals. Also, any house found habring criminals should
Speaker 1: be demolished. Niger State is not for useless people, the
Speaker 1: governor had initially stated. On Wednesday, the governor, in another
Speaker 1: meeting with federal government officials in Niger State, reversed himself
Speaker 1: and stated that yesterday we read a Riot Act on
Speaker 1: hooliganism and people must construte our words for people who
Speaker 1: have dreadlocks. We don't have a problem with dreadlocks, but
Speaker 1: we have a problem with the cult here with dreadlocks.
Speaker 1: So if you have dreadlocks and you have business, please
Speaker 1: come to Niger State. All that is media propaganda. We
Speaker 1: are only driving the cult that is becoming a menace
Speaker 1: in Niger State. Thank you. Meanwhile, the governor at the
Speaker 1: security meeting on Tuesday banned the use of tricycle and
Speaker 1: motorcycle from six pm to six as in the state capital, Minna.
Speaker 1: Details of the ban on the commercial vehicles as contained
Speaker 1: in the news release made available by Belogi Ibrahim, the
Speaker 1: Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Niger State, reads
Speaker 1: Erbata below. Niger State Government has suspended movement of commercial
Speaker 1: motorcycle and tricycle riders from six pm to six a
Speaker 1: m in Minna, the state capitol. Farmer Governor Omaru Bago
Speaker 1: made this public at a critical stakeholders security meeting held
Speaker 1: at the government House with the traditional title holders in
Speaker 1: Minna Emirate and the heads of security agencies. Farmer Umaru Bago,
Speaker 1: who announced exemption for medical emergency, described the measure as
Speaker 1: temporary aimed at addressing the growing security challenges in the
Speaker 1: state capitol. The Farmer governor disclosed that he will not
Speaker 1: stay back and watch criminals continue to perpetrate evil, adding
Speaker 1: that it is the responsibility of every government to insure
Speaker 1: the security of lives and property of its citizenry. He
Speaker 1: also worn district, village and ward heads to always ensure
Speaker 1: proper documentation of people they harbour in the domains, explaining
Speaker 1: that any house found to be harring criminals will be demolished,
Speaker 1: while buildings where hard drugs are sold will as well
Speaker 1: be destroyed. The Farmer Governor also called on the entire
Speaker 1: security apparatus of the state to ensure that they clamp
Speaker 1: down on criminals, their hideouts and their cartels. Farmer Mumaru
Speaker 1: Bago equally cautioned parents to warn their children as anyone
Speaker 1: caught in any violent related activity will be arrested and
Speaker 1: prosecuted accordingly with the full weight of the law. As
Speaker 1: the state government will continue to have zero tolerance on
Speaker 1: thuggery and rascality. He described governance as a collective responsibility
Speaker 1: and thereafter called on all stakeholders to come together and
Speaker 1: ensure that insecurity is tackled. Deputy Governor of Niger State,
Speaker 1: Comrade Yukubu Gaba, Emir of Mineral Haji Uma Farrik Bajajo
Speaker 1: District Village and wardheads in Minna as well as security.
Speaker 1: The chiefs in the state attended the meeting yesterday.
Speaker 2: We read rounds on god raising and people mistewed our
Speaker 2: weves or people to have drendlows. We don't have problem
Speaker 2: with dread balls or we have problems with the colts
Speaker 2: here with dread balls. So if you dread words and
Speaker 2: I have business, please cover the agasty All that is
Speaker 2: a media book. But we're not driving dranos from n Agency.
Speaker 2: We're only driving.
Speaker 3: That's part that is for me becoming in men's nasty.
Speaker 4: Thank you about tolerance, tora'scality, in anybody that you find
Speaker 4: with Barba our dreadlock, arrested.
Speaker 3: Habby's hair and frankly, nobody should carry any kind of
Speaker 3: health record. Again inside me have given you much and
Speaker 3: order the security agencies. Any boy, anybody you find with
Speaker 3: a weapon, deal with him as a number over so
Speaker 3: for parents, one of your children, one of your wards.
Speaker 3: From this moment, it's one hundred percent fire on fire.
Speaker 3: Any attain who have asked any resides an attempt. I
Speaker 3: asked the government of Nigi State. We're going to come
Speaker 3: with your full force of power of the government and
Speaker 3: descend on you and any house found her body. Terriminals
Speaker 3: should be demolished, over developed member, bring it down. nDNA,
Speaker 3: agies and other agencies climbed down on drug dealers zero percent.
Speaker 5: In magiestates.
Speaker 3: A, Niger States is not for useless before if you
Speaker 3: can't take your children, will take your of there for me.
Speaker 2: Who took there?
Speaker 4: There for you.
Speaker 3: Anybody that you find with barber a read look arrested.
Speaker 2: Pat's hair.
Speaker 3: And finally, nobody should carry any kind of help. Record
Speaker 3: again his headmen, I have given you much an order
Speaker 3: the security agencies.
Speaker 5: All so I just came back now and this is
Speaker 5: the first news I'm saying. No page where the governor
Speaker 5: of min A, Nigia States is talking about security in
Speaker 5: security in the states. And then it went on to
Speaker 5: say that any youth or anybody you see with read
Speaker 5: locks should be arrested and they should cut their hair.
Speaker 5: So basically, I guess if try to measure up that
Speaker 5: dreadlocks is a sign of insecurity, maybe you understand. But
Speaker 5: if we want to judge by the looks, even you
Speaker 5: were the governor, they're supposed will you bab your face
Speaker 5: your beers because your beers alone shows that you don't
Speaker 5: even look responsible. Now, not from my own points, because
Speaker 5: I know a lot of elderly people whoever say they
Speaker 5: see you, you carry beers, they'll say, come on by
Speaker 5: clean his team. I don't see some old old men
Speaker 5: that time for church. They tell those brothers for children,
Speaker 5: you do find boy for choir. I don't say, back
Speaker 5: this hair, you are looking irresponsible. So if you are judging,
Speaker 5: the youth are saying that okay, they're looking responsible with
Speaker 5: their look, and it's a thread to security based only
Speaker 5: you are discussing security, then even you as a governor,
Speaker 5: you need to clean shave.
Speaker 6: You need to shave.
Speaker 5: But that's number one. Number two, I mean a very
Speaker 5: nice guy, very that man is very nice. I want
Speaker 5: to help you as the governor to get the boys
Speaker 5: that have dread loss in nija States. That will help
Speaker 5: you as a governor. But guess what I will also
Speaker 5: help you do.
Speaker 6: I will also help you find the youths in Nijo
Speaker 6: States that don't have a job, the people living in
Speaker 6: an abject poverty. In Ninia states, a lot of youths
Speaker 6: Enamine and Nijs State are into fraud because the economy
Speaker 6: is not fevoring them and the governance is not creating
Speaker 6: and avenues for the youth to drive. So if that
Speaker 6: are dread locks, now they give the besting walk. Do
Speaker 6: you know what you're about to stop?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: All about people that are into the business of making dreadlocks.
Speaker 6: Because as far as I because is a hairtyle, it's
Speaker 6: a hairstyle.
Speaker 5: So about the people that are into the business of
Speaker 5: making dread loss. Now, you don't close pressing place ready
Speaker 5: take make money beds? Do you understand? You don't close
Speaker 5: press in place there, Simion, make youth governor, make use
Speaker 5: governor seeming Anistan's governor.
Speaker 3: Now this is what you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Doan's country talk about No, let's not go back
Speaker 6: because like I said.
Speaker 5: It was talking about insecurity, right, which is a good topic.
Speaker 5: Right now, all the old people wear they don't catch
Speaker 5: for insecurity. So just in book ram you know, book
Speaker 5: waram bandits and everything, none of their carry dread loogs.
Speaker 5: Show me a book member with dread looks. Show me
Speaker 5: a book m member with dreadlocks. People, that's attack that
Speaker 5: cause insecurity in Nigeria, they are very smart. They have
Speaker 5: to blend in and it is people like you and
Speaker 5: this kind of ideology that is making them blend in
Speaker 5: very well.
Speaker 6: Now you are going after people.
Speaker 5: You want to start going after boys that are carrying dreadlocks.
Speaker 5: Then people now where I won't do the insecurity, the dress.
Speaker 6: Wear, the sutan thaie, don't carry bomb go bump, don't
Speaker 6: go the kidnapped do they kidnap?
Speaker 5: There are sutan tie. Now there were allergic clothes, there
Speaker 5: were iroa buba, there were this.
Speaker 6: Yagu Yeah is yagoo iro buba or there were malar
Speaker 6: claus or there were suits. Don't carry out atrocities.
Speaker 5: You would not know because you think that the people
Speaker 5: will get dread loss. Now then be the bad people
Speaker 5: for the society. Let's clamp on them. Before you're able
Speaker 5: to do you'll be able to talk to the youth.
Speaker 5: You must have something to offer the youth.
Speaker 6: What are you offering the youth for them to change
Speaker 6: their lifestyle for you? A lot of them nan asis.
Speaker 6: A lot of people carry dread logs for loose seface teams.
Speaker 6: Some people they carry on they covered their hair. Some
Speaker 6: people that look at silking at these dread logs they
Speaker 6: beautify mean a lot of people have different reasons to
Speaker 6: Some people want to grow their hair longer. Some people
Speaker 6: want to save your self stress or going to the
Speaker 6: baby saloon all the ways, so they carry dreadlocks. Dread
Speaker 6: logs does don't mean irresponsibility.
Speaker 1: When it does dread locks.
Speaker 5: Now it goes strengths. If you go by the Bible,
Speaker 5: something has time. They says something keep hair once you
Speaker 5: know the once you know they comb your hair, because
Speaker 5: Bible don't talk about come once you know they comb
Speaker 5: your hair, not dread loves. It goes down to so
Speaker 5: something get dread.
Speaker 6: I want to believe John, the Baptists also have had dreads.
Speaker 6: Now when they get devessive, whether the black man, it's
Speaker 6: just us the black man and Babby, No they there,
Speaker 6: that's just to say. Then Jesus said the da oh, okay,
Speaker 6: there's parts with the shame. Do you understand? So my
Speaker 6: dear governor, with all your respects. You cannot tell your
Speaker 6: type the people on dreadlocks and tack them with those
Speaker 6: causing insecurity or irresponsibility in the States.
Speaker 5: You can't do that.
Speaker 6: You can't do that.
Speaker 5: So please, honorable Godlo, we told you respects. This is wrong.
Speaker 5: This is tell you're typing.
Speaker 6: This is wrong. All the country they carry youth, they
Speaker 6: go outside.
Speaker 5: Want to drain them. Ay ay, maybe they're come into production.
Speaker 5: I say, your governor expects you to bring in the
Speaker 5: youth so that they can go into production.
Speaker 6: This is what you can offer.
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