Bandits have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi local… By Abubakar Akote, Minna Bandits have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi local government…
Terrorists have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi local government areas of Niger State in the last three weeks. More than half of the victims were kidnapped while harvesting maize, beans, guinea corn and soya beans on their farms. Those killed were a traditional ruler, two vigilantes and one other person during an invasion in Mashegu Local Government, Daily Trust reports.
Bandits have invaded Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State, killed the village head of Mulo and abducted three others from the community. The village head, Alhaji Usman Garba was said to have been gruesomely murdered by the bandits and his corpse was dumped by the roadside after which the assailants fled with the three others abducted. The state commissioner for Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar who addressed newsmen at Government House, Minna, on Friday said the incident happened on Thursday night.
One of the victims said they had to pay the money so that they would not be lynched.
“Some of us received monetary donations from our fellow Hausa community leaders to go back to our respective states in the North,” one of the displaced persons said.
He said they lost their belongings during Friday’s crisis, “and that is why we are going back to the North. We are lucky to be alive”,
Recall that a fight that ensued between the Hausa community and the native Yoruba community in Shasa Market, which started on Thursday, February 11, and snowballed on Friday, February 12, had led to the death of nearly 30 people.