Katsina attacks make 600 women widows, turn 2000 children to orphans for Batsari - Town chief

Chief of Batsari town for Katsina state for northwest Nigeria Alhaji Tukur Ruma tell BBC say attacks for di area don make about 600 women become widows and 2000 become orphans.

Di chief also tok say one over three of di pipo wey dey im kingdom don become displaced pipo as dem don run to oda places for Nigeria.

"No be small damage dis attackers do for us, sometimes attacks on a daily basis and for every attack an average of two pipo must die." Dis na wetin di chief tok.

E also add say apart from di loss of lives, di attacks don also kill all agric activities for di area including farming and rearing of animals not forgetting oda economic activities like market days wey die.

Di katsina chief yan say last year, about 40 percent of im pipo no farm at all during rainy season for fear of attack or kidnapping while dem dey farm.

E tok say im area dey face serious hardship wey require urgent goment attention even though e say goment dey feed some of im pipo wey dey internally displaced pipo camps.

Nigerian goment on dia part say dem dey try dia best to bring di insecurity wey dey disturb dat area and oda part of di north to an end.

Di kill-kill for Katsina na im make some pipo organise three different protests for di state last month.

Attacks in north-western Nigeria

Attacks for north-western Nigeria become worse in di last two years and dis na some of di worst attacks wey happun for di region.

Timeline of attacks

Recently, armed men ontop motorcycle wey dey operate out of abandoned forest reserves don also dey attack communities for di north west of Nigeria.

In di last decade ten years, more dan 8,000 pipo don die for di states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Niger and Zamfara, according to di International Crisis Group.