The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has donated 100 million naira to the victims of bandit attack in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State. .
Asiwaju announced the donation during an engagement with religious leaders in Katsina on Saturday at the Katsina State Government House, Katsina.
Recall that 41 lives were lost as a result of terrorists attack in Kandarawa of Bakori Local Government Area in Katsina State.
The police authorities in the state said “terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles, attacked the house of one Alhaji Muntari, at Unguwar Audu Gare, Kandarawa, Bakori LGA, and rustled 50 cows and 30 sheep.
Subsequently, on Thursday, 2/02/2023, at about 10:00hrs, Yansakai, outlawed group, from 11 villages from Bakori LGA, regrouped and went after the terrorists with a view to recover the rustled domestic animals. They traced the footpath of the hoodlums to a location at Yargoje forest in Kankara Local Government Area.
Unfortunately, the terrorists planned and launched a coordinated ambush on the Yansakai. The hoodlums shot and killed forty-one (41) Yansakai and wounded two.
The Area Commander, Malumfashi, led a team of Police men to the scene and recovered the corpses and injured to Kankara General, Hospital. A joint security operations is currently ongoing with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book. Investigation is ongoing, please.
