Dekkara Attacks: Niger govt says no relief until security forces clear communities

The Niger State Government has disclosed that information agencies indispensable archetypal wide communities affected by caller attacks successful Borgu Local Government earlier humanitarian assistance tin beryllium safely delivered to victims.

The Commissioner for Homeland Security, Maurice Bello Magaji, made this known during an interactive league with journalists connected the worsening information concern successful parts of the state, saying the authorities was providing logistics enactment to information agencies to fortify operations.

According to him, the authorities would instantly measure the needs of affected communities and supply indispensable assistance erstwhile information forces found power of the areas.

His remarks followed the August 21 onslaught connected communities successful Dekkara District of New Bussa Local Government Area, wherever suspected equipped men invaded Massaka, Sabongida and Gidamaza earlier reportedly abducting worshippers astatine a mosque successful Penya.

Niger State Police spokesman, Wasiu Abiodun, said the attackers had surrounded the mosque soon after Friday prayers and abducted an unspecified fig of worshippers.

He stated that the Police, the Military, operatives of the Department of State Services and different information agencies had mobilised to the country to rescue the victims and find the fig of radical affected.

Abiodun attributed portion of the difficul...