Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has narrated some of the painful experiences citizens of his state have actually been going through in the hands of terrorists, classified as bandits and kidnappers.

Bello, who stormed the Presidential Villa Abuja, on Tuesday, to inform President Muhammadu Buhari on dominating security scenario in his state, stated, in January this year alone, the state has suffered not less than 50 reported attacks and deaths.

According to the Governor, between 1st and 17th January, not less than 300 communities have actually been gotten into by bandits.

He put the number of individuals abducted at 200, including three Chinese nationals, adding that about 25 security workers likewise died within the brief duration.

“Unfortunately, we lost about 165 civilians and 30 local vigilantes. So, it’s a really alarming circumstance that we have been battling in the last couple of weeks because the beginning of this year,”he told State House press reporters.

He stated the land mass of the state which has to do with nine million hectares likewise positions a great deal of drawbacks, especially in terms of manning the borders efficiently.

“We share borders with Kaduna, Zamfara, and Kebbi States. And these outlaws have the routine of hibernating in between forests, moving from Zamfara to Kebbi, and Kebbi to Niger. They benefit from the livestock routes which they already know.

“They proceed bikes, the majority of the neighborhoods and locations they assault have no access roads. You can not drive there. So, our reaction time is sluggish. Going forward, there will be new strategies which I earlier discussed. It will help us. But I can’t reveal some of those techniques,”he told reporters at the State House.

DAILY POST recalls that President Buhari just recently ordered the military to use force in rooting out terrorism from the state, since it has actually been eatablished that residues of Boko Haram were penetrating the state in a quote to leave onslaught from the Nigerian armed forces.