₦airaland Forum

Some border communities have refuted claims by the Nigerien Junta leader, Abdurrahman Tchani, that there was a forest called ‘Gaba’, where foreign military established their base in Sokoto state.

Our reporter who visited some of the border communities discovered that such forest didn’t exist anywhere in the state.

Leaders and some of the residents who spoke also denied presence of any foreign military base in their communities.

Sokoto shares border with the Niger Republic through five local government areas which includes Illela, Gada, Tangaza, Gudu and Sabon Birni.

Historically, some major communities in the country formed part of the defunct Sokoto Caliphate.

The Sarkin Arewan Araba, Alhaji Abubakar Yusufu, a border community in Illela LGA which is less than two meters away from Konni in Niger Republic said there was no a village or forest called Gaba in his domain.

He also debunked the allegation of foreign base establsihed in the area, likening the allegation to a tea joint discussion tantamount of severing the existing relationship between them and their immediate neighbours in Niger Republic.

“There is no such forest in Araba district or Illela local government and we don’t see any foreigner in our villages, it is a tea joint discussion. Instead, it is the Nigerien military operatives that have been coming into our area every night.

“They come and work with our vigilantes in maintaining peace in our surrounding communities,” he said

The district head, however, cautioned the Nigerian leader against making baseless allegation capable of severing both countries’ historic ties.

Another resident of Araba, Malam Muhammadu Danladi, opined that the allegation was meant to smear the image of our country.

“It is a lie, there is not presence of foreigners in our community. It is just a mere allegation which is unfounded,” he said

He, however, decried what he called a targeted harassment on Nigerians by the Nigerien security operatives in the last six months.

“Their security operatives at the border areas have been harassing our people, seizing their goods for just no cause. But their people are enjoying free access into our country. They have been coming to buy goods and leave and nobody is harassing them. We want our government to do something about this,” he said

Corroborating this, Muhammad, a commercial motorcyclist who take passengers and goods to Konni, also denied noticing presence of foreigners in their communities, just as he lamented the inhuman treatment allegedly being meted on them by the Nigerien security operatives.

It was similar denial at Tabanni Siddi in Gada LGA as residents said neither Gaba forest nor foreign base was established in the community and even its environs.

EmperorCaesar:


Trust those who have never crossed Abuja into the core-North come here and tell us its a lie

They feed on negativity for a living

id4sho:
Propaganda report, trust APC at your peril

Richtaiwo:
Those border communities constitute the bulk of terrorist members and are therefore not in any position to make any public statements against the military leadership of Niger Republic.

Ekehwinz:
This movie will be very interesting.

PressMyButton:
That military leader of Niger republic is a liar, a baldheaded liar. His propaganda has failed. Let him ask some bitter people in Nigeria, how their propaganda failed. At the end of their propaganda, they were relegated to 3rd position. Almost two years after, they're still wailing. All their propaganda dey catch fire. Every propaganda against a special creature like Jagaban, always fails. If Jagaban wants that baby general out of power within two weeks, he will do it. The same Jagaban that turned Obi into overnight Alhaji inside mosques and digging boreholes in the North.



After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

PressMyButton:
That military leader of Niger republic is a liar, a baldheaded liar. His propaganda has failed. Let him ask some bitter people in Nigeria, how their propaganda failed. At the end of their propaganda, they were relegated to 3rd position. Almost two years after, they're still wailing. All their propaganda dey catch fire. Every propaganda against a special creature like Jagaban, always fails. If Jagaban wants that baby general out of power within two weeks, he will do it. The same Jagaban that turned Obi into overnight Alhaji inside mosques and digging boreholes in the North.



After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

Olorunwa2009:
I don't understand what Niger wants from my Dear country.

PressMyButton:
That military leader of Niger republic is a liar, a baldheaded liar. His propaganda has failed. Let him ask some bitter people in Nigeria, how their propaganda failed. At the end of their propaganda, they were relegated to 3rd position. Almost two years after, they're still wailing. All their propaganda dey catch fire. Every propaganda against a special creature like Jagaban, always fails. If Jagaban wants that baby general out of power within two weeks, he will do it. The same Jagaban that turned Obi into overnight Alhaji inside mosques and digging boreholes in the North.



After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

Beuberry:
Why will APC under Tinubu do such?
What is his gain?
You all are brewing anarchy.

Ever8090:
wetin bring Peter Obi inside this matter ..?....

PressMyButton:
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/no-foreign-base-in-sokoto-border-communities-counter-nigerien-military-leader

id4sho:
Propaganda report, trust APC at your peril

Skoonheid:
Every single one of you Nigerians is a liar. You may not have been born that way, but your society and your education has made you that. You're all liars and children of the devil. That's why you are living in a hell of a country and respite isn't coming your way any time soon.

Lies dislocate you from the past and fracture your future. You are all either a time bomb waiting to explode, or situated in a time bomb that will inevitably explode.

From your rotten headed and hearted president and his goons, to all you religious leaders, down to your immediate family, lying will kill you all.

Stupid rotten lot that can never bear the truth.

Fiscus105:
Still don't know why France hasn't said a word on this matter but Nigeria talking like parrot to explain to who ever care to listen, because a minor nation gave out force information about them.