SIX people, including three policemen, were killed yesterday when bandits broke into the Yar Bulutu weekly market in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
President Muhammadu Buhari was in the state to declare the opening of the Chief of Army Staff’s 2022 Conference on the day of the attack.
Around 12:30 p.m., the bandits allegedly attacked the market.
Sa’idu Ibrahim, the state assemblyman who represents Sabon Birni South, newsmen that the bandits arrived on about 20 motorcycles, each of which was carrying three people.
“First they went to where the mobile policemen who were guiding the market were stationed. They killed two of them and set one of their vehicles on fire.
“They later killed another policeman who ran into the bush, dragged his body from the bush and throw it into the burning vehicle. They also killed three other persons in the market and injured several others.
“Right now I am with one of my brothers at Orthopaedic hospital in Wamakko because he was shot in the leg by the attackers,” he said
Ibrahim noted that the attack was carried out by bandits who fled sustained military onslaught in Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states.
“The operation ought to have been carried out in all the states experiencing banditry in the North West simultaneously but because it is not taking place in Sokoto, the state now became a safe haven for bandits dislodged in those states,” he asserted.
The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Idris Danchadi, who is from the area, said some places in Sabon Birni were still under the control of bandits.
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