Lalong said an investigation by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum also showed that farmers also carry AK-47s and other firearms for protection.

The Intersociety noted on Tuesday that there were fears that some of the ladies, who were recently freed after a prolonged legal intervention, could have infections such as sexually transmitted diseases as some of them claimed to have been serially raped.

The bandits who visited Governor Bello Matawalle on Monday at the Government House also sworn with the Holy Quran not to return to carry out banditry activities again.

SaharaReporters had reported how a Jihadist fighter of the Islami2c State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of the group targeted the convoy in Goniri, a border community between Yobe and Borno states, killing many soldiers.

SaharaReporters learnt that the ship was wrecked but the personnel were rescued by a wooden boat and taken back to the naval dockyard on Lagos Island.

SaharaReporters gathered that the insurgents also engaged the Nigerian troops in a shootout.

Kalu told the Independent Investigation Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police units sitting in the nation’s capital city on Monday.

The group said it would no longer fold its hands and allow the military, who were statutorily mandated to protect them, to force them out of their fatherland.

The students carried placards, reading, “Don’t Hurt Our Daddy”, “Dear Daddy Rochas, we love you” and others, as they marched in the state capital.

SaharaReporters learnt that many of the victims lost goods and properties worth millions of naira during the clash between Yoruba and Hausa communities.