EXCLUSIVE: How bandits killed dozens, abducted scores of Kebbi villagers for refusing to pay protection levy

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EXCLUSIVE: How bandits killed dozens, abducted scores of Kebbi villagers, for refusing to pay N25 million protection levy

On January 14, a band of heavily armed men stormed Dankade town in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of, killing at least 17 residents and abducting many more in a punitive expedition. The residents had refused to pay a protection levy of N25 millon imposed by the terrorists, survivors of the attack told PREMIUM TIMES.

The bandits raise millions of naira monthly from the illegal taxes, from which they procure ammunition to sustain their reign of terror. This had been going on since 2020. The villagers fled into the bush on sighting the gun-wielding men. But not everyone escaped. 14 were caught hiding in a room, whom the bandits promptly shot or slaugthered, PREMIUM TIMES gathered from the accounts of the survivors of the attack.

His claim was corroborated by several locals who do not want to be named for fear of becoming targets of new attacks. “Nobody can say the number of persons abducted. It will be after some time before people will begin to look for their relatives,” one of them said. Also, a video clip shows the level of damage caused by the attack. The video shows a ghost Dankade community. Hundreds of the residents have fled their homes, relocating to other towns in the state and internally displaced persons camps.

 

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