Gunmen suspected to be bandits, on Tuesday, cut off the fuel supply to Dansadau town and other neighbouring communities in Zamfara State after they intercepted and set ablaze an oil tanker along Gusau-Dansadau Road.


The fuel tanker was among dozens of other vehicles being escorted to Dansadau by security operatives onboard an armoured personnel carrier when suddenly the armed criminals opened fire on the tanker triggering huge flames.


According to a report by Daily Trust, the owner of the tanker, Yau Muhammad Dansadau said the vehicle was carrying fuel from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) depot in Gusau to supply a filling station in the community, to address the acute fuel shortage following the closure of other filling stations.

He said: “The whereabouts of the driver and one other person on board the vehicle are unknown. They may have been kidnapped. The fear is that there is going to be an acute shortage of fuel very soon. Motorcycles, vehicles and other machines using petrol will soon stop.

“As I am told, the fuel tanker was not only the vehicle attacked, several other motorists jumped out of their vehicles and scampered to safety despite the fact that the attackers were engaged in a firefight by the police escort.

“No vehicle can ply that road without escort; dozens of people especially local traders and commercial drivers have been killed or kidnapped along that 100 km road that is in a very terrible condition.

“The attack is precisely occurring at a very dangerous spot called Mashayar Zaki, just a few kilometres to reach Dansadau. The armed men are lurking around the area to attack every moving vehicle.”

The armed men were said to have cut off the supply of essential commodities to Dansadau after the closure of community markets and stoppage of the supply chain for groceries, food and soft drinks to them in the forest.

Bandits have been especially active in Dansadau over the past months.

They increasingly heightened attacks after security efforts to bring them under control.

A former Zamfara senator, Saidu Dansadau said bandits were scaling up attacks on the Dansadau community to protest the suspension of Emir Hussaini Umar, accused of involvement in banditry.

Umar was suspended in June by the state government for his alleged involvement in banditry.

Dansadau, who represented Zamfara central from 1999 to 2007, said the spike in attacks on the community shows the suspended emir was complicit in the attacks and cattle rustling by bandits.
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Southern Nigeria open your eye. By the time this bandit extend their full business to the south, it won’t be funny.


To think of, is this not how boko boys started small small with government looking away?

FG is busy chasing IPOB, ESN, Nnamdi Kanu, Igboho and peaceful prostesters while north is burning. The northern eiders are dumb,deaf and blind to what is happening in their region but quick to see and respond to what is happening in the south.

princemillla:
Southern[s] Nigeria open your eye. By the time this bandit extend their full business to the south, it won’t be funny.


To think of, is this not how boko boys started small small with government looking away? [/s]

stop glorifying rubbish. South isn't north where Terrorism and banditry can thrive. The local support base isn't there. Their madness can only be in the north where their community leaders,locals are part of the cartels

The North is falling apart.

This is not a problem, our problem in the voice of most local Yoruba Muslims are the good people of ipob and the man of God Nnamdi Kanu

Fulani bandits are now controlling territories under Buhari.



This is shameful

Let’s blame ipob

DubaiLandLord:
The North is falling apart.

El-Rufai and other northern MUSLIMS said they are just doing business and they are lesser evil compare to IPOB

Is this supposed to be a joke or something ?

Do.we still have government in the affected State and Is this Zamfara in Nigeria ? Where is the chief security officer of the State ?

Danjikanbauchi:
El-Rufai and other northern MUSLIMS said they are just doing business and they are lesser evil compare to IPOB

Lol

Can anyone proof they are bandits?

Legitimate business men

As El-rufai

Pierocash:
stop glorifying rubbish. South isn't north where Terrorism and banditry can thrive. The local support base isn't there. Their madness can only be in the north where their community leaders,locals are part of the cartels

So u think all northern leader condone bandits excess It’s either u r too naive to understand that these people have support of the man at the top. If they run through south with men in camo support there is little you can do. Only their victim here in the south can share better testimonies

North is killing northerners na family business, a whole king was caught conniving with bandits to kidnap his own people and was only suspended not prosecuted.they keep pampering their enemies they keep dishing out amnesty for the same group of animals that created the mess in the first place.nobody should care about what's going on that region again,north can turn whatever it want to turn to

Bandits now running parallel government and holding the state to ransom? The sovereignty of this country have long been violated under Buhari hence the worst phenomenon to ever befall this contraption.
Welcome to a failed state called Nigeria where two terrorist factions lay claim as legitimate government.

princemillla:


So u think all northern leader condone bandits excess It’s either u r too naive to understand that these people have support of the man at the top. If they run through south with men in camo support there is little you can do. Only their victim here in the south can share better testimonies

that is a pure falacy. Have they not been using the instrumentality of the state since he came into power,have they succeeded?


Don't be deceived that the President can be just powerful without the grassroot support,nobody will back Terrorism in the South whether the president is In support of it or not,he will be continually resisted .


The Talibans succeeded in Afghanistan simply because majority of the populace backed them. He can't do nada without the people.

Even the whole south couldn't retaliate the food blockade by blocking fuel supply to north.