Spokesman of 1 Division Nigerian Army, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Yahaya, stated this on Friday in Kaduna.
Browsing: Birnin Gwari Local Government Area
The Chairman of Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union, Kasim Kasai, confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday.
The Command’s spokesman, Muhammad Jalige, made this known in a statement issued in Kaduna on Wednesday.
Ansaru, a splinter group of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, has been operating in Birnin Gwari villages for years.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said this in a statement on Monday in Kaduna.
The criminals, who rode on several motorcycles, PRNigeria learnt, were advancing to stage an ambush on ground troops at Dogon Dawa and Damari communities in Birnin Gwari local government area of the state.
Mrs Saratu Dikko-Audu, Chairman of KADSIECOM, who disclosed this in statement issued on Friday, said the exercise had to be cancelled in those two areas for security reasons.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday in Kaduna.
Samuel Aruwan, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, confirmed the air strike in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna.
Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State confirmed the development to newsmen on Wednesday in Kaduna.
The Chairman of Birnin Gwari Progressives Union, Salisu Haruna, revealed this in a statement on Monday, calling for help from the bandits laying siege to their communities.
This was also as the bandits again kidnapped 10 other persons the same day.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhktar Aliyu, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the incident happened on Tuesday afternoon around 2pm
In a petition addressed to Amnesty International, a copy of which was made available to PRNigeria in Abuja, the stakeholders regretted that the Kaduna State Government has abandoned them to their fate, hence the recent killings and kidnappings and called on the international human rights body to wade into the crisis before the community is decimated.
The attack had also left 71 people dead while several others had sustained various degree of injuries.
According to Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, about 45 dead bodies were evacuated by brave vigilantes and volunteers, numbering 500, with assistance of a handful soldiers on Sunday afternoon
The bodies of the slain soldiers have been deposited in a mortuary
The attack was said to have been carried out by gunmen numbering about 50