{"id":36795,"date":"2019-12-04T20:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=36795"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:59:49","slug":"niger-district-heads-decries-persistent-armed-bandits-attacks-on-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-district-heads-decries-persistent-armed-bandits-attacks-on-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: District Heads Decries Persistent Armed Bandits Attacks On Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olabode Adaramola, Niger State<\/p>\n

The District Heads of Allawa and Matan, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State,\u00a0 have called on the state government, to\u00a0 as a matter of urgency,\u00a0\u00a0 addressed\u00a0 the persistent attacks by armed\u00a0 bandits on communities in Shiroro and Rafi Local Government Areas of the state.<\/p>\n

They made the appeal\u00a0 shortly after meeting with the Secretary to the Niger State Government(SSG)\u00a0 Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane at the Government House in Minna the state capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Communities in Shiroro and Rafi have been witnessing series of attacks by armed bandits suspected to have been\u00a0 fleeing from Zamfara and Kaduna states axis, where many lives have been lost and thousands of people were either injured or\u00a0 displaced from their communities.<\/p>\n

The Village Head of Magami, Alhaji Sani Yakubu , said that the bandits attacked Kokoki, Galadima-gogo, Kurebe, Kasha, Bassa and Madaka communities in Matan and Allawa district areas of Shiroro and Rafi local government areas.<\/p>\n

He explained that the activities of bandits had led to the death of no fewer than nine people, while three others were injured just as several women and teenage girls were raped by the fleeing bandits.<\/p>\n

“The bandits started operation last week, they came in large numbers with AK 47 riffles and\u00a0 attacked our ranfomly for about four days, they killed our people, stole our monies,other valuables,\u00a0 raped our women and teenage girls and kidnapped six children.<\/p>

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” We paid a ransome of about\u00a0 N2 million, bought\u00a0 them recharge cards worth N20,000 and gave them peak milk after which\u00a0 five out of the six children were released.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t end there, they came back again, rustled 3,000 cattle, followed from house to house and stole about N10 million from us as well as our belongings such as motorcycles, ” he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu further explained that the continuous bandits attacks forced him and his six wives to abandon his throne to seek shelter in the bush.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Alhaji Mohammed Labaran, District Head of Matan, disclosed that during the event of the attacks, there was no presence of security personnel in the affected communities.<\/p>\n

He appealed to the state government to deploy security personnel to Magandan,, saying that “the influx of armed bandits into the state were from the routes leading to Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger states .<\/p>\n

Responding, the SSG, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, said that government had deployed security personnel\u00a0 to the areas with the view\u00a0 to curtail the situation, bring the situation under control\u00a0 and appealed to the members of the communities to cooperate with the security personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The District Heads of Allawa and Matan, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State,\u00a0 have called on the state government, to\u00a0 as a matter of urgency,\u00a0\u00a0 addressed\u00a0 the persistent attacks by armed\u00a0 bandits on communities in Shiroro and Rafi Local Government Areas of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593],"tags":[772],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-36795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-metro","tag-niger-state"],"yoast_head":"\nNiger: District Heads Decries Persistent Armed Bandits Attacks On Communities - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-district-heads-decries-persistent-armed-bandits-attacks-on-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niger: District Heads Decries Persistent Armed Bandits Attacks On Communities - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The District Heads of Allawa and Matan, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State,\u00a0 have called on the state government, to\u00a0 as a matter of urgency,\u00a0\u00a0 addressed\u00a0 the persistent attacks by armed\u00a0 bandits on communities in Shiroro and Rafi Local Government Areas of the state.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-district-heads-decries-persistent-armed-bandits-attacks-on-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-04T19:59:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"206\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"245\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Friday Ekeoba\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-district-heads-decries-persistent-armed-bandits-attacks-on-communities\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download-1-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download-1-1.jpg\",\"width\":206,\"height\":245,\"caption\":\"Niger State Gov. 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