Tag: Banditry

Insecurity: “Negotiate with terrorists, bandits; they need schools, hospitals” – Sheikh Gumi tells FG

Aminu Imam

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to negotiate with terrorists. Speaking during a television programme yesterday, Gumi said the Government should build schools, markets and hospitals for bandits. The Islamic cleric said Tinubu’s government should allow bandits have a future, rather than continuing to spend billions of Naira to combat banditry and terrorism. According to Gumi: “Negotiate with these people. Build schools, markets and hospitals for them. Let them have future. “Even the people we call bandits, what they sometimes complain…

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Plateau killings: “Bandits are steps ahead of Govt.” – Sultan 

Aminu Imam

Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has condemned the Christmas Eve killings in 20 communities in Mangu, ?okkos, Mangu and Barkin Ladi local government areas of Plateau State. The Sultan, who is also the President, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, stated this in a goodwill message at the closing of the 80th National Islamic Vacation Course, which held yesterday, at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi State. He faulted security agencies for their failure in intelligence gathering in which they could not avert the heinous crime leading to the…

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Sokoto: Bandits burn alive woman, 2 children, daughter-in-law

Aminu Imam

Suspected bandits have burnt a mother, her daughter-in-law and two children alive in another attack on Sokoto community. The bandits were said to have attacked Kurya village in Ra?ah local government area of Sokoto State, around 8:30pm on Sunday. They reportedly killed 12 villagers and abducted 3 women during the attack. A resident of the area, Yusuf Garba, said one of the abductees lost her husband during the attack. Among the victims were one woman who was burnt to death along with her daughter in-law and two children right inside…

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Black Christmas in Plateau, as gunmen kill over 100, injure many

Aminu Imam

It was a black Christmas day for some communities in Plateau State, as rampaging gunmen killed no fewer than 100 people, injured many, and displaced quite a lot of residents of the affected communities in a midnight operation on Christmas Eve. Recall that sixteen people were last Saturday killed and many injured in the Lisham community, of the Mangu local government area, by gunmen suspected to be killer herdsmen. It was gathered that the rampaging gunmen, in an operation similar to guerilla warfare, carried out simultaneous attacks on twenty-seven villages…

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Katsina: Bandits kill 8, abduct others

Aminu Imam

Tragedy struck in Katsina State on Sunday, as terrorists targeted local traders returning from Jibia weekly market, killing eight and abducting two, near Kukar Babangida village in Jibia local government area of the State. The assailants opened fire on the vehicle conveying the traders, leaving four passengers severely wounded. The survivors are said to be receiving treatment in the hospital. The terrorists, said to be fleeing by the military in Zurmi local government area of Zamfara State, spared the wounded but abducted two persons. The names of those killed were…

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Taraba: Bandits reportedly collect beer as levy from farmers

Aminu Imam

Bandits, around Ardo-Kola local government area of Taraba State, have resorted to collecting beer as levies from farmers before allowing them to harvest their crops. According to a senior civil servant in Jalingo, who spoke to newsmen, but preferred anonymity, told the paper that he was forced to buy beer worth over N200,000 before he was allowed to harvest his Benniseed farm. He said the levy imposed by the bandits ranges from N20,000 to N100,000 depending on the size of the farm. According to the report, farming communities where the…

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Katsina: Bandits kill 4 farmers, abduct 8 others in Batsari LGA

Aminu Imam

Suspected bandits have killed four farmers and abducted eight others from Nahuta village, in Batsari local government area of Katsina State, at the weekend. The State’s Police Command spokesman, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, who confirmed the attack yesterday in Katsina, said the farmers were harvesting their crops when the assailants struck. One of the farmers that managed to escape received gunshot wounds, he added. “The suspected bandits attacked the farmers on Saturday, opened fire on them thereby killing four and injuring one; they also abducted eight others”, Aliyu said.

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Taraba: Tragedy, as bandits kill District Head

Aminu Imam

Tragedy struck in Ibbi local government area of Taraba State on Friday, as bandits stormed the area and reportedly killed the District Head of Sarkin-Kudu town, Ali Hakimi. It was gathered that he was killed after he was reportedly attacked by 10 bandits on Friday, in his palace at Sarkin Kudu town at about 12.30 am. According to a resident of the town, Bello Adamu, the deceased was the brother of the chief of Sarkin Kudu chiefdom. He said the bandits had launched several attacks across the chiefdom and abducted…

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Kaduna: Bandits abduct fresh 30 villagers, including wives in Igabi LGA

Aminu Imam

Bandits have again abducted 30 villagers in Unguwar Liman, Gwada community in the Igabi local government area of Kaduna State. Residents said the victims, including housewives and kids below the age of 2, were taken to an unknown destination. The incident occurred on Sunday night, around 11 pm, when the bandits, shooting sporadically, stormed the community. According to a resident and community leader, Jafar Anaba, on Monday night, his biological brother and other relatives were among those abducted, saying the abductors have not contacted the families of the victims. He said, “They…

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Bandits sack Kidandan village in Kaduna

Aminu Imam

Locals, in their hundreds, have moved out of their ancestral Kidandan community in Giwa local government area of Kaduna State weekend, following a raid by a group of bandits in the community who spent many hours shooting sporadically, killing some locals and abducting many. Survivors told newsmen that the bandits, who had been terrorising the community, became more aggressive because of the failure of farmers to pay levies earlier imposed on them by the rampaging hoodlums. The Kaduna State Police Command is yet to react to the incident. The Kidandan…

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