The work has thoroughly viewed in to the devastating effect of armed banditry to the socio-economic development of the people of Zamfara State in particular and Nigeria in general. The study observes that since 2011 the State has been deteriorating in both social and economic sphere owing to the persistent and heinous activities of bandits ravaging the communities and villages within and around the state. It was observed that, these dastardly acts by the bandits have reduced the people residing in those areas helpless, the vicinity lawless and ungovernable. Hence, people leaving in those affected communities and villages had forcefully migrated and/ or displaced relegating their economic activities. In the same vein, people leaving in the towns and cities cannot socially visit their relatives in the villages neither gain access to their farm lands in those villages and forest within and around Zamfara State. The consequences of this were that, food scarcity is on the rise and some animal species is being decimated and lost in the state and Nigeria in general. Above all, lots of human lives whom were expected to till these lands were lost. It is therefore resolved that, the government must rise to its constitutional responsibility to arrest this precarious situation through thorough examinations of the causes, character and manifestation of banditry in the state with the view to arresting and proffering the effective and lasting solutions to this menace bedeviling the state and the country at large. The study employed qualitative mode of data collections through the use of key informant interview as well as human needs theory which argues that, once citizens were denied certain basic needs by the state; violence and insurrections shall be prevalence in that environment.