Barely a week after terrorists killed 37 people at Agban Kagoro Chiefdom in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state, 50 persons reportedly been killed and several others kidnapped bandits in similar attack in Giwa local government area of the state.
ChannelsTV reports that although the state Police Command say it is still investigating the fresh attack and compiling the actual number of casualties, a community leader in Giwa local government, Musa Ahmed said that six villages were attacked by the terrorists between Thursday night and early hours of Friday morning.
He named the affected villages as Dillalai, Barebari, Dokan Alhaji Ya’u, Durumi, Kaya and Fatika, while several houses and motorcycles were burnt by the attackers who also rustled over 100 cows belonging to the locals.
A former Kaduna state governor, Ahmed Makarfi has condemned the attack and called on all stakeholders and citizens of the state to come together to fight the menace that is threatening to overrun the state.
He also called on governments at all levels, and all relevant agencies to restrategise and up the ante of the fight against these criminalities and the perpetrators by overhauling and improving the intelligence gathering of the security agencies as well as the capacity of the personnel to analyse and deploy it more appropriately.
