Niger boils as 700 remain in captivity one month after abduction

There was hostility successful Niger State on Monday as residents took to the streets to protestation the abduction of hundreds of radical who they said remained successful captivity a period aft gunmen attacked respective communities successful the state.

The protesters, from Dekara and neighbouring communities successful Borgu district, converged connected the section authorities office successful New Bussa to request the merchandise of the captives.

Recall that equipped men abducted astir 600 people, mostly women, children and the aged from the Borgu country of the state.

DAILY POST reports that Borgu, astir 300 km from Minna, the authorities capital, lies on Nigeria’s ⁠border with the Republic of Benin to the west.

The protestation increases unit connected the medication of President Bola Tinubu to code insecurity, an contented ravaging the country.

It volition besides beryllium recalled that the President had ordered an contiguous rescue cognition aft the August 21 attacks, however, the kidnap victims person yet to beryllium found.

Speaking, the Niger State Commissioner for Information Obed Nuhu Nana, ...