Terrorists Invade, Operate For Hours, Kidnapped Scores In Niger Communities

        Terrorists Invade Niger Communities

Scores of farmers have allegedly been kidnapped by terrorists in Kaffin-Koro and other neighbouring communities around Paikoro local government area in Nigeria State.

Witnesses said that the operation which lasted for three hours saw gunmen invading the communities in large numbers on Wednesday afternoon kidnapping yet-to-be-identified victims.

According to sources, before to the attacks on Kaffin-Koro Wednesday evening, the villages of Abolo, Kudani, Nani, Kuna, Shunakwa, Sikiti, Zubakere, and Jubidiga were invaded on Tuesday, with one person dead in Sikiti and hundreds of farmers abducted from the eight villages.

Residents of the previously assaulted villages were seeking sanctuary in Kaffin-Koro when the bandits struck again.

According to Abraham Tanko, a resident, many of the villagers fled into the jungle, Daily Trust reports.
“As I speak with you, we are in the bush. We were lucky to have escaped. They came in large numbers on motorbikes and raided the entire Kaffin-Koro town.

A lady close to our house was among those they kidnapped. She was about to run when they threatened to shoot her and she fell,” he said.

The robbers also invaded Shambo, Sabon Wuse, and Old Rijau in the state's Rijau LGA in the early hours of Wednesday.

DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRP) in Niger State, did not responde to phone calls, and had not yet responded to a message sent to his phone at the time of filing the report.
Attempts to contact the Niger State Commissioner for Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar, were also futile because his phone number did not connect.