Residents of Shinkafi emirate in Zamfara had a sleepless night on Friday when armed bandits attacked over ten of their communities and displaced people in their hundreds.
According to a source, the attack came few days after security agencies allegedly arrested the father of one of the bandits’ leader by name Turji in Kano.
The source said the bandits’ leader sent a threatening warning that unless his father is released, people of Shinkafi and neighboring areas would not celebrate their Id-el fitr with relative ease.
According to one of the verified facebook account of one of the indigents of the area Dr. Tijjani Salihu Shinkafi he reported that as a result of the Friday attack and the resurgence of armed bandits activities on Saturday, the royal house of (Magajin Gari) the district head of Shinkafi was destroyed by the bandits using RPG machine gun noting that the district head himself was unsuccessfully targeted for abduction.
He further said, twenty persons were kidnapped from Maberaya and another set of 20 people from villages around Badarawa, Kware and Kurya were also kidnapped.
He added that while one person from Shanawa and three others from Shinkafi were kidnapped at the early hours of Saturday the bandits gunshot a woman, and she is currently on admission at a hospital facility in the area
Dr Tijjani Shinkafi further said, in the same operation ten villages under Shinkafi emirate were displaced while fourteen cows were allegedly rustled.
Zamfara State police command could not be reached for comment as at the time of filling this report.
