By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna –
No fewer than 888 people have been killed in various attacks by armed bandits in various parts of Kaduna State in the last nine months.
This is according to a quarterly security report presented by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, during a security meeting on Wednesday,
The report also showed that a total number of 343 people were killed by bandits between July and September this year alone, while 2,553 people were kidnapped by bandits in various communities across the state from January to September 2021.
Mr. Aruwan attributed the deaths to kidnappings, banditry, communal clashes, violent attacks and reprisals that cut across all ethnic and religious groups in the State.
While commiserating with the victims of the attacks, Governor Nasir El-Rufai ordered for the immediate compensation of surviving victims and relatives of the deceased.
The governor alos called on the Federal Government to urgently declare the bandits as terrorists to enable security forces to use maximum weapons to dislodge them from their hideouts.
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