Bandits abduct five nursing mothers, discard their babies, rustle cattle in Faruruwa Kano

The Chairman of Faruruwa in Shanono Local Government area of Kano State, Yahya Bagobiri, has expressed dismay over the persistent attack by bandits in his area despite the deployment of armed military operatives and other security agencies.

Yahya Bagobiri, anguish follows an overnight attack on Sunday, of motorcycle riding bandits, who stormed the area and abducted five nursing mother’s and carted away 50 cows and other unspecified number of animals.

The Sunday attack at Yan Kwada village in Faruruwa community of Shanono Local government sent panic among residents with hundreds fleeing the area.

Yahya Bagobiri further lamented that despite the deployment of security agents since the last three weeks, the communities have continued to experience daily attacks and rustling of their cattle.

He said, “We continue to see these attacks almost on a daily basis, despite the presence of the military and other security agencies, even yesterday’s attacks, we heard about it that they were coming and we alerted the security but nothing was done until they came around 9pm and raided houses and whisked away the nursing mothers”.

“Among those Nursing Mother’s that were kidnapped one luckily escaped back to her family, so for now they are having four nursing mothers with them”.

Yahya Bagobiri, lamented that the bandits threw away the nursing babies and took the women away, leaving the infants wailing.

The Chairman of the Community Security Forum of Faruruwa, strongly appealed to President Tinubu and the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu and other top Security echelon to come to their rescue before it is too late.

“Earlier on, we appreciated the immediate response of sending the military to our area, we still thank the government for that gesture, but we want them to be strengthened and provide more armed personnel around the area”.

He said doing that will help curtail the menace and bring safety to the area.

Recall that two weeks ago the Military engaged raiding bandits, killing 19 of them while losing two officers during the ensuing incident.