Village Head assassinated as Lukarawa bandits strike Sokoto Community

By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto

SOKOTO: In different nighttime of horror, equipped bandits suspected to beryllium Lakurawa insurgents person unleashed panic connected Sayinna assemblage successful Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, sidesplitting the colony caput and a nonmigratory successful acold blood.

The victims, identified arsenic Alhaji Murtala Sa’adu, 47, the colony caput of Sayinna, and his neighbour, Malam Ibrahim Mai-Kudi, were brutally gunned down astir 1:30 a.m. connected Thursday erstwhile the attackers stormed the village.

Confirming the incident, Alhaji Garzali Raccah, Special Adviser to the Chairman of Tangaza Local Government Council, said the bandits struck with precision, targeting the colony caput for his engagement and enactment of vigilante groups battling insecurity successful the area.

“They opened occurrence sporadically, leaving the assemblage successful fearfulness and confusion. Sadly, our colony caput and 1 different nonmigratory mislaid their lives successful this cowardly attack,” Raccah lamented.

According to him, the Lakurawa insurgents person consistently threatened residents against joining oregon supporting vigilante groups, seeing them arsenic a nonstop menace to their reign of terror. The assassination of the Sayinna colony head, helium explained, was a deliberate effort to weaken assemblage resistance.

Eyewitnesses narrated that the assailants invaded the assemblage with dense gunfire, making it wide they came specifically to destruct those defying their directives.

The victims, some respected members of the community, were known for their staunch enactment of section vigilante efforts aimed astatine protecting lives and spot successful Tangaza. Their deaths, residents said, person near the full assemblage devastated and vulnerable.

Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA were swiftly deployed to the area, evacuating the bodies of the slain victims to the infirmary and conducting patrols to forestall further assaults.

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