Village head, one other assassinated in night attack by suspected Lakurawa insurgents

By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto

Terror returned to Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State, successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday arsenic equipped men suspected to beryllium Lakurawa insurgents launched a deadly onslaught connected Sayinna village, sidesplitting the colony caput and a nonmigratory successful what officials described arsenic a targeted assassination.

The victims, identified arsenic Alhaji Murtala Sa’adu, 47, the accepted person of Sayinna, and his neighbour, Malam Ibrahim Mai-Kudi, were changeable dormant astir 1:30 a.m. aft the attackers stormed the assemblage nether the screen of darkness.

Confirming the incident, Alhaji Garzali Raccah, Special Adviser to the Chairman of Tangaza LGA, said the gunmen appeared to person specifically targeted the colony caput owed to his enactment for section vigilante groups moving to combat rising insecurity successful the region.

“They opened occurrence indiscriminately, throwing the full assemblage into chaos. This was not conscionable a random enactment of violence; it was a calculated onslaught to soundlessness those lasting up against terror,” Raccah said.

According to section sources, the assailants had antecedently issued threats against residents collaborating with vigilante groups, viewing them arsenic obstacles to their power implicit the region.

The execution of Alhaji Sa’adu, a known advocator for assemblage defence initiatives, is believed to beryllium portion of a broader run to instil fearfulness and dismantle section resistance.

Eyewitnesses described the onslaught arsenic swift and brutal, with gunmen firing dense weapons arsenic they moved done the village. Residents accidental it was wide the attackers came with a mission, to destruct cardinal figures opposing their influence. Both victims were profoundly respected successful Sayinna for their committedness to assemblage information and their progressive relation successful supporting efforts to unafraid the country from banditry.

In effect to the attack, troops from Operation FANSAN YANMA were deployed to Sayinna to reconstruct order.

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