As insecurity worsens across Nigeria, the lawmaker representing Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji federal constituency of Zamfara State Hon. Aminu Sani Jajihas has revealed that terrorists in the North West fed newborn twins to their dogs.
Jaji disclosed the barbarity in a chat with newsmen on Wednesday, saying the mother of the babies was abducted from a community in Zamfara while she was pregnant.
According to the lawmaker, she was delivered of twin babies while in the captivity of the terrorists, who threw the newborns to their dogs and they ate the babies.
“That is where we are now. That is the level of inhumanity we are facing,” he said.
He also shared the sad story of an epileptic boy who was killed because he fell during a seizure.
“The bandit (terrorist) demanded the boy be brought to him to be executed. The father, out of desperation, begged his son to surrender to save the rest of the family. The boy agreed and was shot dead.”
Jaji regretted the frequency and brutality of the attacks, stressing that it shows a collapse of governance in many parts of Zamfara.
He urged the federal government to do more and save his people, who had been promised that security would be top priority when they campaigned for President Bola Tinubu during the 2023 general elections in the North-West.
“Now, we are failing those who believed in us. Our people can’t access their farms. Their economy has collapsed. We have many internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are not even recognised by the federal or state governments.”
He added that he has tried to engage security stakeholders, including the Minister of Defence, but so far, they are no results.
When asked if arming the residents for self-defence is the solution, he said the law must guide actions.
“We are legislators, not vigilantes. We cannot encourage people to take up arms illegally. But the truth is, the people feel abandoned,” Jaji said.
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