At the weekend, terrorists invaded communities in Zamfara State’s Maradun Local Government Area, where they killed many residents and kidnapped at least 30 girls.
One of the abducted females who was able to escape captivity, according to a survivor who spoke to the BBC Hausa Service in an interview that was recorded on Sunday, only brought her head scarf.
On Saturday afternoon, terrorists attacked the communities of Sakkida and Jambako, killing around 20 residents at Sakkida and injuring more.
According to a villager who survived the attack, ” We woke up peacefully, there was rain and some locals had prepared to go to the farm. Suddenly there was report that the terrorists have attacked a neighboring village, Sakkida. “
“The local vigilante, JTF called the people of Janbako and sought help. Our volunteers and other community members took up arms and. headed to the village. “
” There was a hill before you reach the village. Not knowing that the terrorists had laid ambush behind the hills, they opened fire on our people. Today in Jambako, 22 people were buried .”
“Security operatives were called but they replied that they cannot be able to come immediately because their armoured personnel carrier was not on the ground. They only had Hilux. The security operatives tried, they chased the terrorists. When they came back, they came with motorcycles that belonged to the terrorists,” he alleged.
” Many people were injured, some were shot, others were hit with machetes. In Janbako, there was no any security operative stationed there to provide security,” he alleged.
Another local told reporters that while gathering fuel in the Daggera woods, girls were kidnapped in the village of Gora. He also mentioned that three people were killed and three others were kidnapped by terrorists the previous week.
” Now they’ve abducted our girls, over 30. They send a message that this year if we want to cultivate our farms in Daggera, we must have a truce with them. We’ve been doing that with them, we can’t even count the number of times we entered into such agreement. We don’t know what to do,”he said.
