A 52-year-old farmer identified as Samanja, has been killed by bandits in Baje-Patiko, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State.
According to a cousin to the deceased, Esther Barde, he was shot in the neck while working on his irrigation farm on Tuesday morning, February 28, 2023.
Barde said, “Because of persistent attacks in the area, residents of most villages in the area had vacated their homes and now live as Internally Displaced Persons in Sarkin-Pawa, the headquarters of Munya LGA. So, it is from Sarkin-Pawa that Samanja goes to his farm every day. He went to plant okro early in the morning on Tuesday and bandits met him there and killed him.”
She said Samanja, who left behind his aged father, was the only surviving son of his father.
She added that the vigilantes had to be involved to retrieve the corpse from the farm.