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Northwestern Nigeria Falling Into Firm Grip Of Terrorists

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A sub-region well known for its poverty headcount, north-western Nigeria has become a home to thousands and different terrorists who continue to challenge the security apparatus deployed by the government to resist them.

The sub-region is troubled and has been stained with blood as banditry, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, pillage, and other forms of criminality by different terror gangs intensify in 2020.

Criminal activities continue to occur almost on a daily and include overnight attacks especially in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and Sokoto states.

There is no accurate number of people killed so far due to the escalating insecurity but different reports estimated that no less than 8,000 persons have lost their lives to the carnage since 2011, predominantly in Zamfara State.

But the year 2020 has seen a countless number of residents massacred, women raped, communities destroyed, farm produce burnt to ashes, farmers killed and thousands displaced to nearby communities and the neighbouring Niger Republic.

The crisis, according to the HumAngle investigation, has forced over 70,000 community dwellers in those states to flee, crossing the border into Niger Republic to seek refuge.

Some parts of Kano have also recorded cases of kidnappings especially in communities neighbouring the Falgore forest in the Doguwa Local Government Area.

The banditry in the sub-region has become a sophisticated enterprise challenging the capacity and the authority of the states

Reports have shown that terrorists referred to as bandits by the locals have gained more ground in Katsina and Zamfara states, where they network and exert forces on the remote villages.

According to Bello Matawalle, Governor of Zamfara State, the so-called bandits converge in the state and travel to different parts of the northwest to carry out attacks.

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