SOKOTO: Community association reveals total casualties, Zamfara bandit leaders responsible in letter to Buhari

Gobir Development Association have written to President Muhammadu Buhari over the constant killings of their people by terrorists.

Bandits just ambushed a vehicle conveying some seasonal migrants at Gidan Bawa Village in the local government, set it on fire and watched the passengers burn to death.

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said 23 passengers were confirmed dead by the combined security agencies, and they dead have been buried.

But the association on Wednesday said they “felt scandalised, traumatised and demoralised by the constant butchering” of their people by the terrorist groups operating in Isa, Sabon Birni and Goronyo as well as Shinkafi Local Government in Zamfara.

The letter revealed that the communities are daily attacked by terrorists working for bandit leader Bello Turji.

“Their impunity has become so brazen to the extent of imposing themselves as rulers and expropriating anything they fancy from the people including but not limited to cash taxes, food supply, drugs and sometimes their maidens,” the association stated.

“Your Excellency, we have earlier on written a similar complaint after a gory incident that occurred at Garki Village, 5 kilometres away from Sabo Birni, where over 80 people were gruesomely murdered in cold blood in a single night.

“At that time we were so awe strike that we hardly had time to bury the dead bodies when the murderous terrorists struck again in another village about 10 kilometres away from there, known as Dakwaro, followed in quick succession by Gajit, Lajinge, Tarah, Unguwar Lalle, Kurawa, Gangara, Garin Idi and virtually every village around the axis leaving behind in their trail blood, tears smoke, ashes and shouldered farmlands.”

The leaders promised to accord the security agencies all necessary assistance in discharging their duties.