Your Sacrifices Won’t Be Forgotten, Buhari Pays Tribute To Slain Katsina Vigilantes

• Terrorists attacked a group of vigilantes in Katsina’s Kankara Local Government Area (LGA) last week.

• The gunmen killed at least 41 vigilantes and injured two.

• The president has reacted to the devastating attack.

Eko Hot Blog reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the terrorist attack on vigilantes at Yargoje forest in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.

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The president’s reaction is contained in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Sunday.

Buhari said the sacrifices of the slain vigilantes and their family members will not be forgotten.

“The President pays tribute to all those vigilantes and family members who have been martyred today, saying that the sacrifices of the brave men who are working to prevent and punish crime in their communities will not be forgotten,” Shehu said.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved families in this difficult period. May Allah repose the soul of the deceased,” the presidential aide quoted the president as saying.

The police in Katsina had in a Friday statement detailed how the gruesome killings occurred.

The Katsina police spokesperson, Gambo Isa, said the terrorists had Wednesday attacked the house of a businessman in Kandarawa community of Bakori Local Government Area and rustled 80 domestic animals.

“On Wednesday, 1/02/2023 at about 2200hrs, 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 fifty (50) cows and thirty (30) sheep,” he said.

Isa said the attack spurred the members of the Yan Sakai group to follow the terrorists and fight them with the view to retrieving the domestic animals.

“Subsequently, on Thursday, 2/02/2023, at about 10:00hrs, Yansakai outlawed group, from eleven (11) villages from Bakori LGA, regrouped and went after the terrorists with a view to recovering the rustled domestic animals.

“They traced the footpath of the hoodlums to a location at Yargoje forest.

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“Unfortunately, the terrorists planned and launched a coordinated ambush on the Yansakai. The hoodlums shot and killed forty-one (41) Yansakai and wounded two (2),” he said in the statement.

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