{"id":467350,"date":"2011-07-25T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/25\/suspected-armed-men-attack-villagers-in-kaduna\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:00:46","slug":"suspected-armed-men-attack-villagers-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/25\/suspected-armed-men-attack-villagers-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected armed men attack villagers in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*As villagers capture three<\/p>\n

BY LUKA BINNIYAT<\/p>\n

KADUNA \u2013 Armed men numbering about 500 suspected to be foreigners from the Niger Republic yesterday attacked two villages in\u00a0Jema\u2019a Local Government Council of Kaduna State.<\/p>\n

Report reaching Vanguard yesterday said the villages routed the invaders, captured three and handed them over to the Military-Police Joint Task Force deployed to parts of the council area since the post-election violence last April<\/p>\n

Reacting to the incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawal told Vanguard that he had no information on the attack, but said he would put a call across to the Police formation in Jema\u2019a LGC and call back. But until press time, he did not call back.<\/p>\n

According to Vanguard source, the invaders were armed with\u00a0guns, machetes and spears when they swooped on the sleeping villages of Angwan Yuli and Angwan Yaro in Jema\u2019a.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness Saidu Mallam said: \u201cWe got information in the evening that strange men were seen around our villages. Then in the mid-night some men who have been keeping vigil noticed men\u00a0approaching our area with arms. We woke all our people up. We saw these men coming in batches holding weapons. The first one numbered almost 200, and the second and the third numbering almost 300.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first and the second group did not start the attacks until the last group arrived, then they started attacking our people who had also taken positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had guns, swords and other local weapons. Some were holding petrol in cans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were outnumbered and we had only inferior weapons. It was a rather\u00a0sudden situation in the middle of the night and their numbers\u00a0intimidate us.<\/p>\n

But we manage to put up a fight, using knives, spears, bows and arrows. After\u00a0 resisting them many of them fled to the bush and we captured three of them who have been handed over to the soldiers. The soldiers had been alerted about three hours before. The soldiers have taken them away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are strange people that you can identified as Nigeriens. Even their accent can convinced you that they are far from us.<\/p>\n

\u201c We have never experienced this kind of situation. The last election violence did not happen here, because there was no election here. Nobody attend\u00a0churches today\u00a0and early Muslim prayers was not said by the Muslims. We are still not sure of what would happen because some have escaped to the bush and may be staging a come back\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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