More people were feared killed in Niger State yesterday after soldiers stormed parts of Minna in search of suspects who engaged troops in gun duel Thursday.
At least 10 soldiers and seven villagers were reported to have died in the clash between the military and locals at Kpaina village in Bosso Local Government.

The military said on Friday that troops had gone on a mop up operation to recover arms and ammunition from the village when they came under fire. Many soldiers were said to have gone missing following the attack.
Yesterday soldiers stormed Kpakugu area of Bosso Local Government area of Niger State in search of missing arms that their colleagues had lost in the clash, Daily Trust on Sunday learnt.
During the operation, the troops allegedly shot dead three more people.
The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, David Umoru, confirmed that he had been informed about the killing during the raid by soldiers.
A source had earlier told Daily Trust on Sunday that soldiers had received information about a youth who escaped to Kpakugu area with one of the military rifles that went missing during the clash on Thursday clash and went to recover it. The source said there were gunshots at about 1am in the area that caused pandemonium.
He said the soldiers shot the suspect in the leg and took him away.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the Niger State Police command, DSP Bala Elkana said the command had not received any information about yesterday’s incident.
The Assistant Director Army Public Relations, Major Njideka Agwu told Daily Trust on Sunday by phone that all information regarding the face-off would be made available to newsmen at a press briefing today.
Daily Trust on Sunday reports that many residents of the affected community and neighbouring villages have fled their homes over the crisis.
A middle-aged man from the affected community who simply gave his name as Abubakar told Daily Trust on Sunday that he had to evacuate his family to the home of a relative in Minna town.
He said he had taken his sick son to a hospital around Bosso the night before the incident, when he got a call that there was crisis in the community.
“I had to call one of my wives to get the rest of the family together and wait for me at a certain spot outside the village before I went to get them,” he explained.
He said though the atmosphere is a bit calm in the community many of those who fled during the crisis were yet to return.
Meanwhile, the Senator Umaru has called for the setting up of a high-powered committee to investigate what he called an “invasion” by the military.
Speaking during a courtesy call on the Emir of Minna, Alhaji Faruk Bahago, earlier yesterday, the Senator said the committee earlier set up by the state government to ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the clash cannot do a holistic job.
The Senator pointed out that the 24 hours deadline given by the state government to the committee to submit its report was hardly enough to unravel the circumstances that led to the crisis.

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I say dem burn man
Dem kee man o 4 inside.....

Am happy the fvckin soldiers were engaged, this is dia normal tactics in plateau state, fulani herders collabo wit soldiers to raid farmers and villagers, if the villagers manage to gather a few arms for self defense, the soldiers will go n seize dem, giving the fulani defenseless people to massacre. God catch una.

bigiyaro:
Am happy the fvckin soldiers were engaged, this is dia normal tactics in plateau state, fulani herders collabo wit soldiers to raid farmers and villagers, if the villagers manage to gather a few arms for self defense, the soldiers will go n seize dem, giving the fulani defenseless people to massacre. God catch una.

Are you serious?

Tallesty1:
Are you serious?

am dead serious menh. If u read the first report on the incident, it was stated that the villagers mistook the soldiers for fulani herders, u'll never see soldiers wen herders r attacking, soldiers only move in to stop any responses from the villagers, collect their arms if any, shoot some and go away, after a short period, the herders will strike again and again soldiers will rush in to prevent any reprisal, over time the villages in that general location gets decimated and the few tired survivors moves away, giving the fulani herders enough land and farms to graze their cattle. Thats the ugly circle my friend. Am a living witness to this, at least in plateau and benue states.

some soldiers are foolish...if I were to handle gun I go first do odeshi...now who will train thier children?