Kebbi Community Faces Another Attack by Lakurawa Terrorists

The Gulma community, which is part of the Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, was attacked by alleged Lakurawa terrorists, resulting in one person being confirmed dead and six others being hospitalized.
Aliyu Sani Gulma, the chairman of Argungu Local Government, said reporters on Friday that the attack happened on Thursday night at approximately 11:00 PM when the villagers were asleep.
Six people were shot and one person was reportedly killed during the attack.

Gulma stated that the Federal Medical Centre in Birnin Kebbi is in the process of treating the injured people.

When the attackers realized that some people of the community had banded together to face them, Gulma added, they retreated into the forest.

He affirmed that he has reported the event to the appropriate security authorities and that military forces have been sent to the area to protect the inhabitants and their belongings.

When contacted, CSP Nafi’u Abubakar, the Kebbi Police Command’s public relations officer, informed Daily Trust that the command had already sent out mobile police officers to the area.

The most recent assault was understood to occur just two months after Adamu Aliero, the senator for Kebbi Central, claimed that the Nigerian military had relocated terrorist organizations to the Niger Republic.

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The development, according to Aliero, came about as a result of the actions of the Chief of Defense Staff, Abubakar Badaru, the Minister of Defense, and other important players.

“We made it clear to the minister that if we play with the Lakurawa terrorists, what happened to the North East could happen to the North West,” Aliero had stated. We can end this conflict in five days, and it would be disastrous if we let the North East repeat itself in the North West. Since the North West is home to a larger population and more agricultural land, livestock, rivers for effective irrigation, fisheries, and other resources, we need to protect the region.

Do you know that until our soldiers showed up on Tuesday, November 12, and chased them as they fled into the Niger Republic, they kept threatening the people and were brave enough to stay? Our international boundary is the limit of our forces’ movement. However, the rest must now be done by our current military partnership with the Nigerien military to defeat insurgency and banditry.