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A large number of combined forces of Boko-Haram and the ISWAP are now openly operating in Borgu and Shiroro Local Government Areas of Niger State
Secretary to Niger State Government (SSG), Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Matane,who disclosed this to journalists,said state at the moment cannot give vivid account of the number of attacks and casualties because attacks and invasions by the armed men is almost on a daily basis happenings in some distant remote villages, including Borgu, Babana and along fringes of Benin and Niger Republics.
According to him, efforts by the ISWAP and Boko-Haram,who already have strong hold in Zamfara state forests and in Chukun area of Kaduna state, to establish santuary in Niger state have not been possible successful notwithstanding the state verse land to its advantage.
He said:“Some villages and local government areas will take you as much as seven hours before you get there. Adding, how do you engage a group of people who use sophisticated equipments, satellite phones and gun trucks with the type of equipments we have?”
He also said that like Niger state, all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja has been infiltrated by the combined ISWAP and Boko-Haram joint forces trying to inductrinate their victims with their islamic ideologies.
He added:“There is appreciable number of joint ISWAP and Boko-Haram forces along boarder town to Benin Republic and they have been trying to istall Hakimis and forcing communities to pay a kind of royalty for traders and farmers before allowing them to access their farmlands. They were the ones responsible for the kidnap of the Dodo of Wawa”.
In trying to establish a Kalipha around the Kainji National Park located in Borgu Local Government Area, the SSG said the group try to deceive the locals by claiming that they are not bandits, but are sent by God as they try indoctrinating them with their beliefs.
“Though Benin Republic has closed boarders against them, the joint ISWAP/Boko-Haram are operating around the periphery trying to discourage the locals from sending their children to school and accept their teachings and to forget about what the government is telling them”.
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