The daredevil bandits who attacked the presidential advance team’s truck on Tuesday in Kastina were not met with resistance or engagement.
This is in accordance with recent information on the incident provided by Kastina village locals who were present when it happened.
The security personnel’s failure to prevent the attack or fend off the attackers, according to Daily Trust, allowed the bandits to carry out their operation with ease.
An eyewitness claimed that the attackers dispersed the inhabitants of Buturkai, forcing them to migrate to Turare village, the scene of the attack, and some of them to Shandai, a grazing reserve area.
He said that happened before the arrival of the advance team.
“At Buturkai, the bandits killed three persons and went to Dogon Ruwa village where they killed two people, broke into so many shops and carted away valuables before proceeding to Marke village where they rustled some animals,” InsightnaijaTV quoted him as saying.
He claimed that when the advance team got to Turare and realized what was happening, they parked their cars at the village’s LEA Primary School for a while, conducted some inquiries, and when it became clear that the bandits had traveled a fair distance, they continued on their way while intermittently firing into the air until they passed the danger zone.
A resident of Marke, where the robbers were when the team came, added, “The long convoy of the security people (advance team) passed, shooting into the air, after the bandits had left our area.
“From our understanding, it was the same group of bandits that killed the area commander around Zakka area that passed through Kwanar Dutse to Kunamawar Mai Awaki where they killed two people, then Kunamwa Babba, they killed two people also, one of whom was the husband of my sister-in-law,” he said.
The same bandits continued, killing six people in Unguwar Gurbai, two in Doguwar Dankwambo, and six more in Unguwar Ido village, where he also said they killed six people.
