Boko Haram Have Taken Control Of Shiroro LGA, Recruiting Villagers – Niger Governor

The dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect has taken over 500 communities in eight wards of Shiroro Native Authorities of Niger State.

The newest growth additionally got here six months after Governor Abubakar Sani Bello raised the alarm that Boko Haram components had hoisted their flag in Kaure Village of the identical native authorities space, with Buhari doing completely nothing about it.

The incident in Shiroro Native Authorities Space was confirmed by the Chairman of the council Mr. Sulaiman Chikuba whereas that of Munya council which occurred on Thursday this week was corroborated by the council Secretary, Mr. James Isaac Jagaba. The 2 officers spoke to journalists in Minna yesterday.

“Because the Chairman of Shiroro Native Authorities Space of Niger State, I can inform you that Shiroro just isn’t solely coping with the problem of banditry, Shiroro has plenty of Boko Haram, I’ve proof of this because the chairman,” Chikuba stated, including that “Boko Haram has proclaimed that they are not looking for typical major and secondary faculties, their solely choice is the Islamic faculty.

“They’ve instructed the folks that they are not looking for major or secondary faculties within the communities and that they solely need to see Islamic faculties. They’ve been attempting to include and recruit the residents of the communities to turn out to be their members, telling them that they are going to give them arms and help them in combating the federal government,” Chikuba defined.

Narrating what occurred at Kachiwe neighborhood the council secretary stated: “all the neighborhood was worn out, the miscreants took their time to set all the homes and barns ablaze earlier than leaving with some girls.”

“The bandits set all the homes ablaze, burnt 10 individuals alive, kidnapped 10 girls and slaughtered the others.

“After finishing up their atrocious act, they met two individuals on the way in which out whose automobiles broke down, they stopped and killed these two individuals and burnt their automobiles. Within the course of, three of the kidnapped girls escaped and the bandits went with the remaining seven girls,” Jagaba stated.

The secretary additional disclosed that the miscreants after the operation at Kachiwe moved to Shapè Village below the Sarki Pawa ward the place they slaughtered 9 individuals whereas others in the neighborhood took to their heels mentioning that they (bandits) additionally killed seven individuals in Gogope ward.

Jagaba lamented that the miscreants had been profitable of their dastardly act due to lack of communication which made it unattainable for them to contact the safety groups within the areas earlier than pleading with the federal government to revive the communication community to the native authorities space.