NewsNigeriaPoliticsTerrorist Group Kills 13 Vigilantes In Kebbi

The terrorist group operating within Kebbi State axis ‘Lakurawa’ has killed 13 members of a vigilante group after attacking Morai community in Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi State.

The vigilantes were killed while trying to resist incursion by Lakurawa who attacked and rustled cattle from the community.

Malam Ibrahim Augie, a resident of the community said the vigilante members in had come out in their numbers to repel the terrorists’ attack when they were informed of their incursion into the village, but the terrorists had already encircled them and killed 13 of them.

“The vigilantes hid to attack and recapture the rustled cattle, but they didn’t know the Lakurawa had already seen them and they were shot and killed,” he said.

Police and Government are yet to issue any statement regarding the incident.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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