By Laleye Dipo
The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial district of Niger state Alhaji Sani Musa on Wednesday said no less than two people have been killed and 30 others abducted in series of bandits attacks in the senatorial zone in the last one week.
Musa also said that some 5000 people had been rendered homeless as a result of the incidents during the period.
The Senator gave the statistic in a statement in which he chronicled the incidents and its negative impact on the people in his constituency made available to newsmen in Minna.
“In one week, armed men in their hundreds have unleashed mayhem and terror on innocent citizens in their peaceful villages, forcing them to evacuate their homes into homelessness,” Musa said in the statement titled ‘Niger Security: One Week of Sleeplessness”.
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A resident of Ogu, Kamal Mamman Wayam, said the gunmen stormed the community on Sunday morning and shot sporadically into the air.
Wayam said: “The gunmen in their large numbers arrived Ogu on motorcycles. Before we knew what was happening, they started shooting into the air. They ransacked people’s houses and carted away whatever valuable they could lay their hands on. They also abducted six persons from Ogu, including two visitors.”
The attack on Tegina was said to have happened at about 12:30 am on Monday.
A resident of the community, Sani Gamachindo, said thirteen persons were abducted.
“The gunmen entered the room of my daughter that night. But she hid under the bed, while her husband went up the ceiling. When the gunmen entered their room, they spent 30 minutes and ate almost all the food in the kitchen. Thank God, they were not abducted. But thirteen persons were kidnapped,” Gamachindo explained.