Residents in Borgu and Agwara local councils of Niger State, in their thousands Tuesday have fled to the Benin Republic due to persistent and sporadic attacks by terrorists.
The bandits invaded Borgu a day after the Governors of Niger and Kwara states, Mohammed Umaru Bago and Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, held a meeting in Minna on Monday to assess the security situation in the border towns of the two states.
The terrorists, who came on about 70 motorcycles and numbering over 200, invaded the Konkoso community for the second time within one week in early hours of Tuesday.
Locals said the attackers razed down many houses in Konkoso before moving to Segbana, another village where they wreaked havoc. Though, there was no casualties. Segbana is said to be a border town between the Benin Republic and Nigeria in Kebbi State.
The State Police Command was yet to react to the latest development.
Meanwhile, the Senate has condemned the killing of 56 locals and the kidnapping of women and children in Konkoso village, saying the attack eas brutal and unacceptable.
The resolution followed a motion of urgent national importance moved by the senator representing Niger East, Sani Musa, during an emergency sitting of the Senate on Tuesday.
Musa told his colleagues that more than 56 villagers were killed in Konkoso and nearby Pissa villages, while several women and children were abducted.
He said the attacked communities share boundaries with strategic forests linking neighbouring states, creating corridors exploited by terrorists for cross-border movements and coordinated criminal operations.
The Senate consequently renewed calls for a sweeping overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture, demanding improved intelligence coordination, unified operational command, deployment of surveillance technology, and better integration of community policing structures.
