Daily Security Information Update

ALERTS DATE
The following section illustrates the date alerts were reported on Monday, 12th December, 2022.

BANDITRY

1. Bandits killed 17 people in Rimi village, which is located within the Yankari Game Reserve forest in Bauchi State’s Alkaleri Local Government Area. Following deadly attacks by armed bandits in many villages throughout the LGA, thousands of people, including women, children, and the elderly, have begun to flee their homes. The villages are located in the vicinity of the newly discovered oil field in Alkaleri LGA. According to a resident of Yashi village, the bandits stormed the village and opened fire on residents shortly after Jum’aat prayers on Friday.
2. The wife and four children of a member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly have been abducted by suspected terrorists. According to a local, the bandits arrived in town around 11 p.m. on Thursday and began shooting sporadically to scare people away. He claimed that the bandits went straight to the Honourable House and broke down the gate. He claimed that as soon as the bandits entered the house, they abducted the Honourable member’s wife and four children. As they were leaving the house, they noticed two of his neighbors, whom they also kidnapped.
3. Terrorists killed four traders in Katsina State’s Jibia Local Government Area on Sunday. According to reports, the traders from Zandam village were on their way to a market near the local government headquarters when they encountered the terrorists. The Katsina State Police Command spokesman confirmed the incident.
4. A 90-year-old man was burned to death, and two other people were killed, after bandits invaded the Amtawalam and Pobawure communities in Gombe State’s Billiri Local Government Area early Thursday. Governor Muhammadu Yahaya condemned the killings and destruction of food items during an assessment of the scene of the incident on Friday. He referred to the attackers as bandits and cattle rustlers, emphasizing that such actions would not be tolerated by his government.
5. Unknown gunmen suspected of being bandits assassinated a traditional leader in Zamfara State’s Yankuzo Emirate. According to a resident, the district head was ambushed and killed by bandits on his way home from work on Friday. In an attempt to kidnap him, the bandits attacked his vehicles and shot him twice, he said.
6. The Zamfara State Police Command tactical operatives said on Sunday that they repelled terrorist attacks, arrested 10 suspected terrorists, and recovered two AK-47 rifles, two magazines, 104 rounds of live ammunition, and a large quantity of dry leaf suspected to be cannabis. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), the police tactical operatives were on confidence building patrol in the state’s Zurmi and Shinkafi Local Government Areas when they received a distress call about terrorists’ plans to attack some villages in the two LGAs, and they quickly mobilised to the scene and engaged the terrorists in a gun battle, after which the terrorists fled into the forest.

KIDNAPPING

1. Bandits who kidnapped a corps member and others in Abuja on Tuesday night have demanded N100 million and N60 million from their relatives as ransom for their release. Seven gunmen attacked the Kubwa Extension II Relocation Estate on the Arab Road area of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday night, abducting seven residents and killing two males during the hour-long attack. The corps member, who just finished her mandatory National Youth Service in November 2022, was kidnapped from her family home and has not been allowed to speak with her relatives since. According to reports, the bandits contacted the corps family on Thursday and demanded N100 million in ransom.
2. Kano State police said they had rescued four victims of various kidnapping incidents and arrested 17 suspects. The command’s spokesman stated this in a statement. He stated that the suspects were apprehended in three separate kidnapping incidents within 30 days as a result of the Kano State Police Command’s ongoing efforts to combat all forms of crime and criminality.
3. Gunmen kidnapped 16 wedding guests, including four children, at Gwombe community in Gwargwada Chiefdom of the FCT’s Kuje Area Council. According to a local, the victims, mostly women, were kidnapped on their way home from a wedding in Abaji Area Council on Saturday evening. He claimed that the gunmen stopped the victims’ vehicle and whisked them away, a man riding a motorcycle on his way to Rubochi who nearly ran into the kidnappers returned to the village and raised the alarm.

SHOOTING (GUNMEN)

1. On Saturday morning, gunmen enforcing a purported five-day sit-at-home order in Enugu State attacked and burned a police patrol vehicle in the New Market area. It was reported that the hoodlums, numbering in the tens, stormed the New Market area as early as 6 a.m., most likely to shut down the market, but ran into some police officers and attacked them. They were said to have engaged the police officers stationed at the market in a gunfight, eventually setting fire to their patrol vehicle.
2. On Friday afternoon, gunmen allegedly enforcing a botched sit-at-home order attacked parts of Owerri, Mbaitoli, and environs in Imo State. The gunmen opened fire in various locations, killing a police officer. According to reports, the gunmen also macheted the state Commissioner for Solid Minerals. Gunmen riding in operational vehicles opened fire indiscriminately, forcing people to flee for safety. While businesses closed abruptly, the roads were deserted as motorists abandoned their vehicles and fled.
3. The Nigeria Police Force has stated that it will work with other security agencies to apprehend assailants and perpetrators of various criminal acts in the Eha-Amufu communities of Enugu State. According to reports, gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, along with collaborators from Benue State, have recently terrorized the communities of Agu-Amede, Mgbuji, and Eboh in Enugu State’s Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo local government area. In the last 18 months, the communities have lost no less than 120 residents, the majority of whom were children and women. In the three communities, over 40 farm settlements and villages have been sacked, with property worth millions of naira destroyed.
4. Sixteen people, including women and children, have been confirmed killed in Enugu State’s Eboh Autonomous Community. This follows a new attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Eboh, which is in Eha-Isi-Uzo Amufu’s local government area. According to reports gathered on Friday, the new killings occurred on Thursday when gunmen suspected to be herdsmen launched an attack on Eboh Ishialu village with collaborators from Benue State. According to community sources, the assailants wore military uniforms, which misled the public and caused them to relax when they first saw them.
5. On Friday evening, gunmen enforcing sit-at-home killed four people in two locations along the Owerri-Okigwe Road in Imo State. The gunmen also kidnapped two expatriates who were supervising the ongoing construction of Owerri-Okigwe Road Phase 11. The killings took place in Umunachi, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area, and Umuna, Onuimo LGA, respectively. The expatriates were kidnapped at Umunachi after two persons suspected to be their security aides were brought down.

HOODLUMS ATTACK

1. Gunmen attacked the Imo State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital of Owerri on Monday. However, vigilant Policemen on duty at the facility repelled the attackers and three of them were gunned down. According to sources, the assailants began shooting at the facility around 2 a.m. and throwing locally made bombs, which razed some parts of the INEC headquarters before the Police intervened.

COMMUNAL CLASH

1. According to the Ondo State Police Command, vigilantes were killed in the communal crisis involving the Kajola and Koseru communities in the state’s Odigbo Local Government Area. The crisis erupted on Saturday when Ilaje LGA hoodlums allegedly invaded the communities, killing and destroying property. According to a source, some residents of the affected communities and security agents are believed to have been killed.

Source: Risk 360