By Balarabe Alkassim A member of the House of Representatives from Kebbi State, Kabir Ibrahim Tukura, told his colleagues Wednesday ...
By Balarabe Alkassim
A member of the House of Representatives from Kebbi State,
Kabir Ibrahim Tukura, told his colleagues Wednesday that over 500 persons had
been killed, 201 abducted and 15,000 displaced in attacks by bandits and
terrorists on farming communities in Sakaba and Danko/Wasagu Local Government
Areas of the state.
He, however, did not specify the period within which those
attacks happened.
In his lead debate at plenary, Tukura said though the state
police command confirmed that bandits killed 88 persons in the last week’s
attacks on Koro, Kimi, Gaya, Dimi, Zulu, Rafin Gora, D’lanko, Dguenge, Chonoko,
and Unashi villages in Danko/Wasagu LGA, over 150 people were discovered to
have been killed after an assessment visit to the affected areas.
The lawmaker said reports had indicated that about 5,000
cattle and 3,000 sheep were also rustled in areas in the last one week alone.
He said the bandits moved in hundreds from town to town,
searching for cattle to rustle, farm produce to cart away and people to abduct.
“In some cases, the homes of the residents are entirely
burnt down, thereby rendering them homeless. Besides, many of their victims
have been maimed while women, both old and young, are raped.
“Considering the current rise in security challenges in
Danko-Wasagu and Sakaba Local Government Areas and indeed across the country,
It is apt to state that the government has not done enough to secure the lives
and properties of the good people of the local government areas to enable them
to go about their everyday life.
“The local governments have been suffering silently in the
hands of bandits in recent months, a situation that has led to the
overstretching of the security agencies beyond their limit.
“The farming communities in the local governments have lost
over 500 persons to banditry and terrorist attacks. Furthermore, more than 201
individuals were kidnapped with millions of naira paid as ransom.
“Over 15,000 have been rendered homeless, the number of
widows is on a steady rise, children cannot go to school, farmers do not have
access to their farmlands, and local markets are closed.
“They are now becoming poorer and poorer, and above all, the
local primary schools cannot accommodate the internally displaced persons in
the affected communities,” he said.
Adopting the motion, the house urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to deploy more security personnel to Danko/Wasagu and Sakaba Local
Government Areas of Kebbi State to forestall further attacks on communities.
It also called on the Inspector-General of Police, Usman
Baba, to establish a mobile police unit at Unashi and Mai-Rai-Rai villages in
Wasagu Chiefdom which is the route of the bandits.
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