Niger: Stakeholders in Kontagora Emirate to convene security summit

Worried by the contemporary escalation in bandits’ attacks on some communities all the procedure in which by Kontagora Emirate, in Kontagora Native Authorities Space of Niger Issue, indispensable stakeholders, alongside side the Emirate Council, have agreed to convene an emergency security summit to advance encourage up with a workable resolution against addressing the rising diploma of security challenges confronting the house.

In contemporary occasions, your complete native authorities areas at some stage in the Emirate Council, comprising Kontagora, Mariga, Magama, Rijau, Wushishi and Mashegun, are bedevilled with frequent attacks from gunmen suspected to be bandits, and this has made lives dejected for the participants, in particular farmers who were forced to desert their farms and properties.

Worst hit are communities in Mariga Native Authorities Space, where the armed bandits lately launched attacks on two militia camps at Gulbin Boka and Kwanan Dutse, killing no fewer than 20 squaddies, and injuring scores.

In a equivalent vein, some contributors of these communities were caught in the crossfire whereas a range of the bandits were also neutralised precise by the stumble upon with the squaddies.

The convener of the summit, tagged ‘First Kontagora Emirate Security Engagement and City Hall Assembly,’ and the Speaker of the Niger Issue Condominium of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulamlik Sarkindaji, in a assertion in Minna on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, defined that the need for the protection summit had turn out to be fundamental since all mature approaches to addressing the protection challenges at some stage in the emirate weren't yielding the desired outcomes.

Sarkindaji had pressured out that whereas the protection brokers battle to curtail the onslaught by “these enemies of the participants,” the difficulty proceed to escalate, main to the killing of promising Nigerian squaddies and innocent villagers, alongside side that “this can no longer proceed, as a participants we need to advance collectively to agree on the procedure in which forward.”

The speaker added, “These criminals are no longer magicians, they are human beings treasure us.

“This command must be confronted so as that our participants, in particular farmers, can indulge in some diploma of peace.

“The esteemed little kids of Kontagora Emirate can no longer fold their hands and enable these animals, disguising themselves as human beings, to execute our participants, our security brokers, and construct lives meaningless in your complete inhabitants”, he emphasised.

Abdulmalik acknowledged that the protection project impacts all people living in your complete emirate, advising stakeholders to rep part in the summit as their presence and contributions are needed to in finding lasting solutions.

The speaker also hinted that the summit, which is scheduled to relief on Saturday, July 5, 2025, at the Emir’s Palace Kontagora, will have in attendance, all ragged and most contemporary senators, all ragged and most contemporary Condominium of Representatives contributors, all most contemporary Issue Condominium of Assembly contributors, most contemporary commissioners, most contemporary native authorities council chairmen, most contemporary director generals and particular advisers.

Others he disclosed consist of all retired militia officers from the foul of Lieutenant, all DIGs and AIGs of Police, all ragged and most contemporary commissioners of police, all most contemporary councillors and numerous high dignitaries who're little kids from the emirate.

He added additional that “the assembly will support as a platform for us to advance encourage collectively, part insights and collaborate on systems to adopt to combat the protection challenges and construct sure the safety and effectively-being of our communities.”

Whereas acknowledging the efforts of the instruct authorities against addressing the project with a range of systems adopted by Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago in the last two years, he maintained that the concerns of security are a collective accountability, hence the need for every hand to be on deck.