Heightened security presence recorded in Zamfara amid fresh bandit threats

A heightened information beingness has been recorded on Sunday in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State pursuing renewed reports of bandit enactment and fears of further attacks connected surrounding communities.

Sources said the improvement prompted the exigency evacuation of the household of a erstwhile lawmaker, Tijjani OD, from the country to Abuja nether dense information escort.

The cognition reportedly progressive a combined information convoy comprising 4 Nigerian Army Hilux vehicles, 2 Nigeria Police Force Hilux vehicles, and 1 Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, conveyance deployed to guarantee the harmless extraction of the family.

The improvement comes conscionable days aft suspected bandits invaded an off-campus residence of students of the Federal Polytechnic, Kaura Namoda, connected the outskirts of the Low-Cost country of the town, abducting 7 students during a late-night attack.

Similarly, a radical known arsenic the Concerned Citizens of Kaura Namoda precocious raised concerns implicit the worsening information concern successful the area, which it linked to t...