Residents of the Gulma community in Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi State are now sleeping with their one eye open as some Lakurawa terrorists invaded the place in the dead of the night, and killed one person, injuring six others.
Confirming the brutal attack, Chairman of Argungu local government, Aliyu Sani Gulma, disclosed that the terrorists struck at about 11.00p.m. on Thursday while residents of the community were fast asleep.
“In the attack,” Aliyu Sani Gulma recalled, “they killed one person and shot six other people. The victims are at the Federal Medical Centre in Birnin Kebbi now.”
However, the local council boss informed that the terrorists spoke with their legs and fled into the forest seeing that the community had mobilised to counter the attack.
“I reported the incident to the security commands for necessary action,” Aliyu Sani Gulma said, “and troops were already sent to the community to protect the people and their properties.”
Public relations officer to the Kebbi State Police Command, Nafi’u Abubakar, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, also confirmed the attack, saying that the command had already dispatched mobile policemen to the community.
Daily Trust newspaper recalled that the attack came two months after a former Governor of the state, and now Senator representing Kebbi Central, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, revealed that the Nigerian military had flushed terrorists from the state sending them back to hell or where they came from in Niger Republic.
According to Aliero, the development followed the interventions of the Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru; Chief of Defence Staff and other critical stakeholders.
The newspaper further recalled that Aliero had said at the time that: “We told the minister in no uncertain terms that if we play with the Lakurawa terrorists, what happened to the North East may happen to North West. It’s a war that can be finished within five days, and if we allow a repeat of North East in the North West, it would be devastating. The North West has more population, and richer in agricultural land, animal husbandry with rivers for good irrigation, fishing and other things, so we must secure the area.
‘’Do you know that they were bold enough to hang around and kept threatening the villagers until our military arrived on Tuesday (November 12) and pursued them as they ran into Niger Republic? Our troops can’t go beyond our international boundary. But it is now up to our existing military cooperation with the Nigerien military on stamping out banditry and insurgency to do the rest.”