Nigeria: Ndume faults woman’s arrest for condemning banditry 

Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, has kicked the arrest and prosecution of a woman, Hamdiya  Sidi, in Sokoto by the police for lamenting the incessant killings by bandits.

Ndume aligned himself with a similar position taken by a northern coalition,  Voices for Inclusion and Equity (VIEW) which had condemned Sidi’s arrest.

Senator Ndume noted that Sidi’s lamentations on the killings were a way of drawing attention to the killings by bandits.

He said there…