Kebbi State Government has denied a report from an online media outlet (not TRIBUNE ONLINE) claiming that bandits are in control of many Local Government Areas in the State.
The State Deputy Governor, Senator Umar Abubakar Tafida, who denied this report at a press conference Tuesday, described the report as a pure figment of imagination by the publisher.
He was emphatic that the state government has strengthened security measures across communities against any security breach since the report on the presence of Lakurawa in the two sister States of Sokoto and Kebbi.
The Depury Governor recalled that bandits and not Lakaruwa attacked Mera village in Augie Local Government Area, tragically resulting in the death of 17 heroic youths of the town who confronted the gunmen, also inflicting fatal injury on some of the attackers.
Following the incident, the State Government, along with National Assembly members and ministers from Kebbi, provided significant financial support to the…