Armed looters and kidnapping groups What the Nigerian government describes as “bandits” 32 people died from helicopter on Sunday He is from the Adara community in southern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, in the country’s centre-north, local Nigerian media reported on Thursday.
Awemi Maisamari, national head of the Adara Development Association, made sure that the attack was launched by Fulani herders, who, in addition to occasional fire from helicopters, also had the assistance of attackers on the ground. They would arrive on 150 motorcycles, each with three gunmen, as reported by the Nigerian newspaper ‘Daily Post’. “The death toll reported Wednesday is 32, with villagers scanning the surrounding bushes for more bodies. Seven were found decomposed on Wednesday morning,” Maisamari said. area has been destroyed.
In a statement by its national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) criticized the military hierarchy, particularly the Nigerian Air Force, for their slowness in dealing with armed groups that are “terrorizing” the northwest region. The most populous country in Africa. Likewise, the organization said that while the Nigerian Army and Air Force condemned the “bandits” actions, the militias “now Encouraged by the government’s inaction“They moved on to deploying more sophisticated weapons, such as an attack helicopter. “The killing of dozens at Adara in southern Kaduna is unfortunate and completely preventable if the military does not ignore intelligence and warning signs.” Onwubiko underlined.
“Bandits” kidnapped more than 80 people in Katsina
“Bandits” kidnapped more than 80 civilians this Thursday They set fire to barns and local shops in the village of Kwari, as reported by more than 2,000 local people who fled and took shelter in a primary school in the (northern) city of Jibiya, Katsina province. “At 17:30 local time, they came in full force and occupied us without realizing they were coming. They opened fire, occasionally firing and burning our shops and barns,” one of the villagers said at the ceremony. Hausa language of the BBC radio network collected by the Nigerian newspaper ‘Vanguard’.
So the woman said, “They kidnapped the speechless men and women, small children, and took them to the forest. They then did a count and discovered that the ‘bandits’ had taken as many as 80 people. They even took the Fulani member, pregnant women.”The truth is we need help. We need help because we are in an unfortunate situation. Please help us, some husbands don’t know where their wives are. Children can’t find their mothers, some mothers don’t know where their children are.”
At least 360 people died in the first three months, 258 were injured of the year in Kaduna State. Kaduna “bandits” have become a scourge for the country’s authorities, who have declared them terrorist organizations to facilitate security operations. This did not prevent them from continuing to act with almost complete impunity in attacks that follow the same pattern: they enter the province’s towns on motorcycles, shoot indiscriminately at their inhabitants, abduct some of the survivors, and flee before the authorities can react. Likewise, “bandits” also include armed groups that have intervened on one side in the numerous inter-communal conflicts that have plagued the African state for decades, and kidnappers who specialize in attacks on educational institutions such as the province in the northwest of the country. Zamfara’s.
A report submitted in May by the provincial governor, Nasir al-Rufai, detailed 1,389 abductions and rape of at least a dozen women, including six children, and 3,251 animals in the first three months of the year. in the hands of bandits, most of them in Kaduna Central.