The Police have confirmed the death of a village head and abduction of eight others in the Gwaram community, Talatan Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The incident occurred on Monday when gunmen stormed the village in the early hours with motorcycles, abducting locals from their houses.
Confirming the incident, spokesperson of the Zamfara State Police Command Supritendant Shehu Mohammed said those abducted Include the wife of the District head of the area and former ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Musa Makeri.
He said the Village Head was shot dead after refusing to be kidnapped by the bandits and saying he preferred to be killed in his community than to be taken to the bush.
Meanwhile, a member of the Katsina House of Assembly, Ibrahim Machika on Monday disclosed that bandits killed seven farmers and abducted 30 others during different operations in Tasha Bama, Dogun Muazu and Unguwar Maigaya villages in the Sabuwa LGA.
Machika, who represents Sabuwa Constituency in the House of Assembly, made the disclosure during plenary while sponsoring a motion on the need to improve security in some communities in the council.
Machika said, Our people now live in fears as the bandits now carry out attacks in our villages in broad daylight. They kill people, steal property and kidnap as many people as they can.
“There is no day bandits don’t attack one community or another and the people no longer sleep in their houses.”
His colleague representing Dutsinma constituency, Muhammed Khamis, and another member from Safana constituency, Abduljalal Runka, also said attacks by bandits had become worrisome in their respective constituencies.
The Speaker, Tasiu Zango, directed the clerk of the house to forward a letter to Governor Aminu Masari on the need to reinforce security in the affected communities.
