At least 500 communities in Shiroro Local Government of Niger State have been taken over by bandits.
This is according to the Shiroro Local Government chairman, Suleiman Chukuba.
According to him, not less than eight wards in the local government are now under Boko Haram siege.
Speaking with journalists on Friday, September 30, Chukuba said the affected areas are Manta, Gurmana, Bassa-Kokki, Allawa, Kurebe, Kushaka, Kwati, Chukuba, and Galadima Kogo.
He said: “They incorporate the people of those communities by telling them they have arms and money to give them so they can assist them in fighting the government.
“Shiroro local government has an uncountable number of Boko Haram fighters.
“I have the proof being that I am the executive chairman, the chief security officer of the local government. When they go to the various communities, what they tell them is that ‘We don’t want primary, secondary schools. We only want Islamiyya schools’.”
The council chairman called on the federal government to deploy more security operatives to the area to fight the insurgents who have made Shiroro their home.
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