Crime
SOKOTO: Bandits displaced thousands under Tambuwal
In Sokoto, under the PDP Gov Aminu Tambuwal, no fewer than 7000 displaced by bandits are sheltering in two camps in the state.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the IDPs are Sabo Birni and Isa council areas.
Spokesman of the agency Manzo Ezekiel said in a statement yesterday in Abuja that a joint assessment by NEMA staff and the state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) established that no fewer than 6,200 of the affected persons were currently living in camps and host communities.
The camps are in Sabon Birni Primary School, Isa town in Sokoto State and neighbouring Shinkafi town in Zamfara, he said.
Aliyu Kafindangi, Head of NEMA’s Sokoto Operations Office, who led the assessment team, sympathised with victims of the banditry attack and assured them of necessary relief support.
Banditry has been raging across the northwestern art of Nigeria, leading o thousands of deaths and displacements.
The criminals kidnap, rustle cattle, kill the citizens.
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