Following military onslaughts in Zamfara state and its surroundings, over hundreds of bandits, led by notorious bandits kingpin Dan karami, have migrated to territories between Safana and Batsari Local Government territories of Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria.
News Central gathered that in order to coordinate their attacks, the bandits infiltrated Tsaskiya, Runka, Gora, Labo, and other communities in the two LGAs.
It is pertinent to mention that Usman Modi-Modi, another notorious bandit, has been terrorising locals in the aforementioned areas.
Northwestern Nigeria’s Zamfara State has experienced an upsurge in violence during the past ten years. Armed assailants invade villages on motorbikes and set them ablaze, rape, steal, and kill.
They suddenly emerge on the roadways, shooting drivers and taking scared passengers from their vehicles to be either shot or ransomed. Even children are not safe; hundreds of students have been kidnapped from boarding schools throughout the state and held captive at bandit hideouts buried deep in the woods while ransom payment is demanded on them.
Thousands of people have been killed in this conflict across the North West, and close to a million more are now displaced from their homes with killings and mass abductions making headlines.
In 2021 alone, more than 2,600 civilians were killed due to the nefarious activities of these bandits, and some 11,500 Nigerians have been forcefully displaced to neighbouring Niger Republic.
