Some gunmen attacked the
residence of Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto, killing his security
guard, Abdullahi Jijji.
Sulaiman Shinkafi,
director-general of the Bafarawa Foundation, who confirmed the attack, said the
bandits also abducted one Abdulrasheed Sa’idu, a 16-year-old boy said to be the
ex-governor’s nephew.
According to Shinkafi, the
attack, first of its kind in Bafarawa village, occurred around 9pm on Friday.
He said the attackers arrived the
village in motorcycles, wielding AK47s. He added that they th
reatened to wipe
out two villages.
“They threatened to wipe out
Bafarawa and Kamarawa villages in the Isa local government area of the state,”
Shinkafi said in a statement.
“This is the first time such an
attack is happening in Bafarawa town, but the people of Kamarawa, a nearby
village, have been experiencing killing, kidnapping and burning of their
property.”
The attack happened a day after
Bafarawa launched a foundation and announced that it was organising a security
summit alongside other northern leaders to proffer solutions to the banditry
and kidnapping in the region.
Speaking during the launch,
Bafarawa accused some governors of fueling insecurity across the region in a
bit to inflate their security votes.
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had earlier made the same
accusation.
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