Dozens More Killed In Nigeria’s Katsina as State Pleads For Help
The Acting Governor of Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, Farouk Lawal Jobe, has urged the country’s federal government to take “urgent measures” to protect residents of the state from frequent attacks by gunmen. This comes after an early morning raid killed dozens of worshippers at a mosque. The attack, according to reports, was in retaliation for the villagers killing the gunmen’s accomplices the previous weekend.
The latest massacre comes after a parish church was set alight and destroyed, and the attackers looted or destroyed property and vehicles.
Insecurity in Katsina has significantly impacted the state’s education system, with hundreds of students and their teachers either abducted or killed. “Inadequate control” along the state’s border with neighboring Niger Republic has been blamed for its security challenges.
