Skip to main content

Residents flee as gunmen return to Zamfara community

Zamfara State map
Zamfara State on map

Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara State is under siege by armed bandits with repeated attacks and killing and maiming of women at many local communities in the area.
A victim from Dan-danbo community told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the attackers came around 8 p.m. and started shooting sporadically in the air, scaring residents.

A number of men reportedly ran away, leaving women and children in the community.
There is the fear that some women may have been raped during the attack.

Women and children are currently running for safety, with their belongings, and are taking refuge at Nasarawa Godal community. Some are reuniting with their husbands after they fled from the attack, Friday night.

A source said the affected community in Friday’s attack is the Dan-danbo community, situated in the Birnin Magaji local government area of the state.
The attack is coming after PREMIUM TIMES reported on Thursday, how the armed bandits ransacked and killed several people at Garin Haladu and garin Kaka community, while they were working on their farmland.

But, the police source in Zamfara, however, downplayed the number of the dead victims, saying only five persons were killed in the attack.
“The attackers beats our women after they told them that they didn’t know where we kept our money. They went away with many cows and sheep and goats, including food stuff,” a victim taking refuge at Nasarawa godal community, said.

He also said no death was recorded in the attack but highlighted that many women were manhandled.
After the attack, residents fled the community in fear and in the belief that they are no longer protected by security personnel. They say their communities are under a siege and that they are repeatedly attacked by the armed bandits.

Some of the residents said the only safe place is the main town, Birnin Magaji, where soldiers are camped close to the house of Nigeria’s defence minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, who hails from Birnin Magaji local government area of the state.

Residents of the affected community, Dan-danbo, are now taking refuge at Nasarawa godal community.
In spite of this, there is the fear that the attackers are currently lurking in a nearby bush and may launch an attack on Nasarawa godal community.

Nasarawa godal community is the second biggest town after Birnin Magaji, the headquarters of the local government council. The victims of attacks in these areas are trooping to the community, seeking refuge.

Mohammed Umar, the local government chairman of Birnin Magaji, told PREMIUM TIMES that the frequent attack in Birnin Magaji communities was as a result of the dislodged the criminals’ hideout at Maradun.

He stated that on Friday, soldiers were in the bush in the affected areas and all efforts are on ground to address the insecurity in the affected areas, not only Birnin Magaji, but in the entire state.
Mohammed Shehu, the spokesperson, Zamfara police command, said he needed more time to investigate before he can confirm the attack.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mrs Len Burton was a Cotswolds mother of three renowned for her perfect scones - but was also a colonel in Russian intelligence who sent Britain's atomic secrets from her privy

Ben Macintyre's book Agent Sonya tells the story of Soviet spy Colonel Ursula Kuczynski Ben Macintyre's book Agent Sonya tells story of  Colonel Ursula Kuczynski  She lived in Oxfordshire hamlet Great Rollright and was known as Mrs Burton  The spy was on active duty and had radio transmitter tuned to Soviet intelligence She fled to East Berlin in 1950 and retired as a spy before dying in 2000 aged 93 Her scones were the envy of the Oxfordshire hamlet of Great Rollright, where the friendly woman known as Mrs Burton lived in a stone farmhouse. In her late 30s, she moved there with her three children and husband Len just after the end of World War II.  She had a faint foreign accent but the locals took no notice and she soon became a stalwart of village life. They were unaware of the massive secret she was hiding — one that even now, 75 years later, had me reeling in amazement at the audacity and ingenuity it involved on her part.  And the unforgivable treache...
Post a Comment
Read more

Parents charged in horrific murder of their 4-year-old daughter who was boiled alive on New Year's day

                      A Michigan couple has been charged with one of the most heinous murders that is being referred to as the "worst child death case" ever after their 4-year-old daughter died in a "scalding bath" in Michigan. Candice Diaz, 24, and Brad Fields, 28, were charged with murder, torture, and child abuse and both denied bail. Gabrielle died on New Year's Day after living a life filled with abuse. Doctors say she suffered multiple injuries, including severe burns on her limbs after she was in a bath with scalding hot water. A medical practitioner, who examined Gabrielle Barrett's body, described the alleged murder as the "worst child death case" in 27 years of his career, according to a court document. The document also allegedly states that the four-year-old was burned so badly that her big toe fell off, and police found melted skin in the drain. Gabrielle's mother, Diaz, and her partner, Fi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Kaduna state House of Assembly approves castration as punishment for rapists

  The Kaduna state House of Assembly has approved castration as punishment for anyone convicted of rape in the state.   The Assembly gave the approval following the passage of a bill to amend the Kaduna state penal court law, 2017, by the lawmakers on Thursday, September 10. The assembly announced the approval on its Twitter handle but deleted the tweet afterward.   “The Bill Recommend total Castration for Rapist in the State,” the assembly's deleted tweet read   However, the majority leader of the assembly also tweeted about the development. “A bill to amend the Kaduna State Penal Court Law No.5 of 2017 has yesterday 09/09/2020 been pass into Law by @Kadlegislature. The Bill Recommend total Castration for Rapist in the State,” the tweet read. In July this year, the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said the justice system of the state will no longer grant bail to rapists. He disclosed this when a group of women, advocating for justice for rape victims, staged a p...
Post a Comment
Read more