No fewer than 2,000 persons have been
displaced by the activities of cattle rustlers in Niger State within the
past three weeks, an emergency official said on Sunday
The Director-General, Niger State
Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, said
this while
distributing relief materials to some of the displaced persons in
Pandogari.
He said that the displaced persons were
also sheltering in neighbouring communities in Shiroro and Rafi local
government areas of the state.
The director-general said that victims
were displaced following continuous attacks by rustlers from
nieghbouring states of Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna and Sokoto.
Inga said already, a Joint Task Force
and the police were in Kukoki and Gbada to ensure security of lives and
property and urged residents to return to home.
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