AA / Peter Kum
Heavily armed men attacked Kaduna airport in northern Nigeria on Saturday, killing a security guard and temporarily disrupting air traffic, local Nigerian media reported.
On Saturday March 26, a heavily armed group on motorbikes stormed Kaduna airport.
The attack was repelled by security forces but an airport worker was killed, Kaduna State Security Commissioner Samuel Aruwan said on Twitter.
“Soldiers stationed in and around the airport returned fire and repelled the attackers,” Commissioner Samuel Aruwan said.
“The bandits unfortunately shot and killed an airport employee who sounded the alarm when he saw them,” he added.
According to this security official, this is the latest violence attributed to gangs locally called “bandits”, which are rampant in the north-west and center of the country.
On its official pages on Facebook and Twitter, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN, an organization that brings together the main Christian denominations in the country) in Kaduna, the northern state of Nigeria, accused the laxity of the Nigerian government.
“Citizens of Kaduna state are tired of rhetorical responses from the government without concrete action being taken to protect lives and property,” the association said.
“The Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria is saddened and in mourning at the continuing incidents of killings, kidnappings, banditry, committed in our state without any substantial action by the government and the security forces”, denounced the president of the CAN in Kaduna, pastor John Joseph Hayab.
He further recalled that “Kaduna State has lost several lives over the past four years, while politicians hardly show any empathy or concern for the victims, with government response generally being in the media”.
Northern Nigeria is regularly targeted by Boko Haram gangs and terrorists.
On the night of March 25, 50 people were killed and more than 100 kidnapped during an attack on nine villages in the Giwa region in northeastern Nigeria, according to local authorities.
The terrorists razed several houses and a church, looted cattle and burned nearly 30 vehicles.
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