Bandits have attacked communities in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area, where they shot sporadically, and abducted no fewer than 36 locals.
This is coming even as students and civil servants of Birnin Gwari extraction but now in the state capital, lamented that they could not travel with ease to the area for Christmas without military escorts.
Commenting on the fresh attack on Birnin Gwari communities, Abu Muhammadu told newsmen that the bandits raided the Jangali Bagoma community and went away with over 36 locals.
According to him, ‘they came early Sunday and on Monday, shot indiscriminately and kidnapped the women, children and others from the community.
‘The bandits did not kill anybody during the attacks. We are still counting the number of the people they kidnapped.
‘They attacked twice in less than 2 days. We are helpless,’ he said.
The police in the State id yet to officially react to the latest attack.
Meanwhile, some students of tertiary institutions of Birnin Gwari origin, have lamented that going home was expensive as they have to arrange for a military escort.
‘Even our traditional ruler has to beg the military authorities for helicopter, we are in deep trouble,’ a student who craved for anonymity has said.
Africa Today News, New York reports that this is coming less than one month after Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya declared that the Nigerian Army was now ready to engage bandits and criminals in war while also assuring that it’s no longer going to be business as usual for the terror groups.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK