In the eerie midnight silence, gunshots from bandits
shattered the peace of residents of Kigudu community,
ZangoKataf local government area (LGA) in Kaduna State. The sound echoed close by, spreading terror and freezing everyone. When morning came, a horrific scene
unfolded: a nurse lay lifeless on the floor, a grim testament to the night's evil. The bandits had taken two sick patients on admission, leaving loved ones in anguish. They also looted and burned the community's health facility, destroying life-saving resources.


Jerry Laman, the head pastor of Kigudu ECWA Church which is a few kilometres from Kigudu Primary Health Care (PHC), the only healthcare centre catering to about
12 settlements in the area, trembled as he shared the chilling tale.


Kigudu community has been plagued by bandit attacks for months.
According to residents, between January and December 2022, the community was attacked eight times, and the local primary health care (PHC) was looted twice. In the attack which took place in December 2022, the bandits were unable to find any drugs or medical supplies to loot.
They reportedly became angry, killed a nurse, and kidnapped two sick patients, before setting the PHC on
fire.

Residents live in fear and can no longer access basic healthcare within the community. Instead, they travel
to Kaduna City and Kafanchan to receive treatment, Danjuma Philip, the chairman Kigudu ward development committee said.
The PHC was closed after the attacks, forcing residents to travel long distances to receive treatment.
Philip said that the attacks have had a devastating impact on the community.

"We don't know when the bandits will strike again,” he said. “In my capacity as ward committee chairman, I notified the PHC manager who coordinates PHCs at
the LGA level in Kaduna about the incessant attacks and our present condition. It has been over six months and no one has responded or done anything."



Kigudu residents are not alone in their suffering. Bandit attacks have also plagued their compatriots in Kajuru, in Southern Kaduna.
Rachael Samson, a resident of Jere South in Jere LGA, was running for safety during an attack on her community when she suffered a miscarriage. After the attack, she returned to find that the community's health facility had been destroyed. She had no choice but to
be treated locally for her miscarriage.


Christian Nuhu, the head of Vigilante, a local security group in the Jere South community, described
how the only midwife in the community, Vero Samuel, was kidnapped while on night duty.
"Vero Samuel was kidnapped in one of the recent attacks by bandits,"

Nuhu said. "We have not heard from her since then."
Attacks on communities in Southern Kaduna have continued, destroying health facilities and denying
thousands of residents access to healthcare. A Solacebase investigation found that the Kaduna
state government has failed to adequately fund the rebuilding of these facilities, despite making
budgetary allocations for this purpose.



https://saharareporters.com/2023/07/03/bandit-attacks-health-facilities-southern-kaduna-leave-residents-without-access-1

God1000:
Southern Kaduna again, I heard the new chief of defence staff is from there

Arrewa:
Southern Kaduna

goodnessme1:
But why Yoruba Muslims don't care about this people.🙄🙄

jmoore:

mrvitalis:
Since morning not upto 30 comments

Change the southern Kaduna to IMO or Anambra or Abia now and see... If for done reach page 15

If 20 spine off threads

T8ksy:



If you substitute southern Kaduna with OYO, OGUN ati bebelo, you guys will be all over the thread with your warped thought processes thereby pushing the thread to 50 pages, by now.!

mrvitalis:

Killing and pastor happened in Ondo last week... Show me how many threads igbos openeded about it

T8ksy:



The ones, igbos opened were inundated with your kinsmen jubilating all over place like they have just a million dollars! Even your good self was not left out. You commented in the same veins as your brothers, asking why yorubas ignored the thread at the time, mocking yorubas at their misfortune.

Yorubas died in that unfortunate incident but you igbos, jubilated.