Armed Bandits has attacked Mada Police out-Post killed an Inspector and Cart away riffles belonging to the police in Zamfara
The Incident Happened in Mada village, in Gusau Local Government area of the state
The armed men attacked the police out station Tuesday night with sophisticated weapons
Sources told TVC News that police Personnel at the station flee for safety on sighting the bandits approaching them with deadly weapons
Sadly, one Inspector was killed in the atrack
Mada Community has been Suffering from bandits Attack and Kidnapping in recent times
Residents of the Community had before this year’s rainy season fled their Homes to safer Community due to incessant attacks
It would be recalled that a retired army corporal an indigene of the village was arrested with Riffles, ammunition and other deadly weapons Along Kaduna – ABUJA highway while on his way to deliver to his clients in Tsafe, a Local Government Neighboring his home town Mada.
Police in the state are yet to comment on the incident.
Zamfara State has been in the throes of banditry and insecurity over the last few years due what many have come to know as banditry but which has been changed in nomenclature to Terrorism.
The State Government has put in place several measures ranging from amnesty to repentant bandits, money in return for surrendering arms, special military operations, deposition of collaborators including traditional rulers.
This attack may signal an upsurge following a recent lull in attacks attributed by many to incessant and sustained military and Security agencies operations around the Northwest in the last few weeks.
The State Government will now have to return to the drawing board to find new ways of addressing the issue which has defied solutions and has even led to the loss of an Alpha Jet belonging to the Nigerian Airforce.
The fighter Jet was shot down by fire from Anti Aircraft Guns by bandits/Terrorists.
