Kwara: Woro village head reveals deep details about bandits attack

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Umar Salihu, the head of Woro Village, asserted that the absence of sufficient security allowed bandits to operate freely for approximately 10 hours.

According to him, the assailants who murdered more than 200 individuals in the community previously dispatched a letter in which they asserted that they were coming to preach.

According to Salihu, the bandits sent him the letter on January 10th, 2026, and contrary to the villagers’ expectations, they conducted their raid for more than 10 hours, resulting in multiple deaths.

He said: “There are some that are buried according to Christian rights, there are some that have been affected and do not belong to the community and have to take their corpse to a different location

“There are some that were burned down in the church. Some, they locked them inside their rooms and set them on fire. Those that were burned inside the church, we cannot identify some, we can’t count the number of people burnt down.

“I received the notification on the 10th of January around 7.45 from a man came, he is the Hakimi of one small village of about four kilometers from my community.

“According to him, they abducted him and forced him to bring the letter or else they would kill him and that is why he brought the letter to me. When the letter got to me, I went to the DSS in our local government headquarters and the following day I took the letter to the Emirate council and they wrote a letter in that respect to the various appropriate quarters.

“The content of the letter said they were coming down to preach but there was no date and time, they just said they were coming down to preach.

“We have soldiers staying there but the bandits came over the night and there was gun exchange between the army and bandits, since then, they took away the soldiers and that place has remained open.

“There is no security presence and that is why they came and spent almost 10 hours.”

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