There is apprehension that terrorists may have relocated to the Katsina metropolis in numbers after four people were killed and many others kidnapped over the weekend in the state.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that terrorists had yesterday struck in the metropolis, killing two members of a local vigilance group behind the Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Teaching Hospital (Federal Medical Centre) in the heart of the city.
Residents of Shola Quarters said the terrorists invaded the area at about 2am, abducting an unconfirmed number of persons, among them a couple, Yusuf Bishir and his wife, who just wedded.
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‘The terrorists also wounded two other members of the vigilance group during an operation that lasted over an hour. They brought down the wall of the couple’s house before getting access to them and moved to the other houses,’ said a witness.
A spokesperson for Katsina State Police, Gambo Isa, said: ‘Our officers are on operations and will communicate details in due course on the operations.”
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that last week, terrorists attacked Natsinta community, close to the Natsinta Army Barracks, where they reportedly killed one person and abducted several others.
Also, last Wednesday, terrorists stormed Dan Tsauni community, near Civil Defence Training School, killing one of the residents. It was learnt that residents had recovered the decomposing body of the second victim killed on Sunday morning in the area.
Meanwhile, the police command has said its men raided terrorists’ hideouts at Unguwan Dako, Tandama village, Danja Local Government Area, and rescued six kidnapped persons.
In a related development, Femi Fani-Kayode who is a controversial political critic and the former Aviation Minister of Nigeria has blasted the Nigerian government for pampering some of the terrorists who have been terrorising the country rather than killing them like the Americans are doing.
Fani-Kayode had been reacting to the report of the United States’ killing of the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is an al Qaeda leader.
