In the early hours of Saturday, security forces reportedly pulled out of Adabka community in Bukkuyyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State—a move residents claim left the area vulnerable to attacks.
Moments later, bandits stormed the town, k!lling about two dozens of people and allegedly carting away their bodies.
Those residents also abducted include women, children, and the elderly.
Outrage erupted soon after.
Hundreds of residents poured into the streets in an anger-charged march, demanding urgent intervention from the Nigerian government to stem the bloodshed.
“They have k!lled our people, driven us away, violated our dignity, and oppressed us; we will not accept it. The Zamfara State Government should ensure that security personnel are returned. Those mobile police officers and those brought from Maiduguri should all be brought back,” one of the survivors told SaharaReporters while sobbing.
The fresh tragedy came barely 24 hours after another protest shook Zamfara’s Kaura Namoda LGA, where grieving women, clad in black, decried the slaughter of over 100 villagers in Jimrawa despite official claims that bandit groups had been “decimated.”
The back-to-back protests underscore growing frustration over what locals describe as a collapse in security and a government slow to act as rural communities remain under siege.
Efforts to reach the Zamfara State Police Command spokesperson, ASP Yazid Abubakar, proved abortive, as he neither took repeated calls nor replied to a WhatsApp inquiry as of press time.
