LIST: Names Of 42 Sokoto State Communities That Paid N67million In Taxes To Bandits In One Week


By imposing taxes on these communities, the terror group, led by Bello Turji, a notorious bandits’ leader, is raising millions of naira to build an arsenal of heavy weaponry to unleash more mayhem, FIJ reports.

Terorists operating in some parts of Sokoto State have now become tax collectors after imposing levies on communities and setting payment deadline.
By imposing taxes on these communities, the terror group, led by Bello Turji, a notorious bandits’ leader, is raising millions of naira to build an arsenal of heavy weaponry to unleash more mayhem, FIJ reports.

Turji fled Zamfara, a neighbouring state, after military offensives against him and his cohorts. He has since built a new empire in Sokoto forest and procured more ammunition, according to confidential interviews with sources familiar with his movements.
“If we don’t pay the taxes, they’ll kill our people,” a community leader in Sokoto said.
“There is nothing we can do since the government has shown that they can’t help us.”
Since the levies were imposed in October, residents of the affected communities have had sleepless nights rallying around to raise the funds.
Over 40 under-policed villages in Sabon Birnin have had to pay over N67million to fill bandits’ pockets.
Lai Muhammed, the Minister for Information and Culture, had decried the development, saying violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of Nigeria are not different from street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.
Meanwhile, northwest bandits are capturing villages misgoverned by state and federal authorities. On Sunday, news from Sokoto was dominated by accounts of villagers lamenting how bandits imposed new district heads on them after capturing their villages.
“Some of the communities paid N1.5 million each while others paid up to N2 million or even N4 million across three wards,” FIJ quoted a villager as saying after his community paid to bandits.
“Everyone in the village was asked to pay N5,000. Everybody paid. I also paid. It was compulsory payment.”
A youth leader in one of the terrorised villages said complying with bandits’ directives was the only way their safety could be ensured. He said recent events in the communities had discouraged him to convince his people to vote for any politicians in subsequent elections.
“Recently, we made some payments,” he said.
“We paid the money not because we so wished, but because we didn’t have any other option. I observed that some villages had paid before us. Definitely, if we didn’t pay, they might attack us.”
Despite paying millions to bandits, the victimised residents are still uncertain, knowing that the ongoing ceasefire is just temporary.
After interviews with local sources, village heads, and community journalists, below are names of villages that have paid millions of naira in taxes to bandits;


VILLAGES THAT PAID IMPOSED TAXES IN SABON BIRNIN AMOUNT PAID IN CASH
1- Kwatsal N3million
2- Kwarengamba N4million
3- Dakwaro N2.5million
4- Masawa N2milliom
5- Kuzari N2.5million
6- Dogon Marke N3million
7- Kuka N1.5million
8- Kaifin Aska N2million
9- Allakiru N2million
10- Gomozo N3million
11- Ayifara N1.5million
12- Dan Aduwa N1.5million
13- Garki N4million
14- Katuma N2.5million
15- Garin Idi N1million
16- Rambaɗawa N500,000
17- Tudun Wanda N370,000
18- Nasarawa N600,000
19- Zangon Ga Itace N300,000
20- Makuwana N1million
21- Tsauna N200,000
22- Tagirke N2.1million
23- Adarawa N1.8million
24- Atallawa N800,000
25- Kiratawa N2.1million
26- Hawan Diran N80,000
27- Dukkuma N2.1million
28- Takaki N600,000
29- Dubai N100,000
30- Dan Maliki N400,000
31- Bore N2million
32- Mallamawa N1million
33- Kimba N1.85million
34- Katsira N1.5million
35- Faru N4million
36- Dungurum N500,000
37- Jinjira N4million
38- Walkiya Sabuwa N1million
39- Walkiya Tsohuwa N300,000
40- Kitamau N600,000
41- Gangara N1.5million
42- Zangon Abamu N2million
TOTAL N66,620,000


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Hmmmm

There is a big problem with this country

Meanwhile, all the security forces are in the east. Zoogerians must get sense by force.

If this bandit of a thing is not solved now. This people will be a very big threat to this country in the coming years.

The north should stop playing politics with this issue.

Bandits are business men and not Terrorists.


benuejosh
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abouzaid:
Meanwhile, all the security forces are in the east. Zoogerians must get sense by force.

Only 100 soldiers to come & show ipob that election must hold in Anambra which it did successfully you are calling all? Trouble never start you have already started wailing?

clarocuzioo:
Bandits are business men and not Terrorists.


benuejosh
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Please try & be objective & use your common sense.

Buhari has failed the North

DAVIDMOE:
If this bandit of a thing is not solved now. This people will be a very big threat to this country in the coming years.

The north should stop playing politics with this issue.

When your state governments have refused autonomy to the Local Government.

adamsmith914:
Only 100 soldiers to come & show ipob that election must hold in Anambra which it did successfully you are calling all? Trouble never start you have already started wailing?

meanwhile, 120 people killed in a Sokoto market just for fun. Una sense still far from you.

slivertongue:
Buhari has failed the North

Aren’t the so called bandits the indigenes of the state?, you have failed as a Nigerian, let your legislators change the law & give local autonomy like the states have from the Federal Government. Let the Local Governments develop.

abouzaid:
meanwhile, 120 people killed in a Sokoto market just for fun. Una sense still far from you.

Breakdown of law & order in a state is an internal problem, let the Local Governments function, the Governor’s cannot run the Local Governments from the Centre, they have to be 2 different entities that coexist, nothing to do with the President @ the Centre.

adamsmith914:
Aren’t the so called bandits the indigenes of the state?, you have failed as a Nigerian, let your legislators change the law & give local autonomy like the states have from the Federal Government. Let the Local Governments develop.

I repeat Buhari has failed the North. No southern president will be so indifferent to his peoples security concerns

Nigeria is in dire need of money right now

The FIRS should first collect tax from these bandits before anything

Every business pays TAX in Nigeria so I dont know why their own will be different

If they refuse to pay TAX to government, Gumi should be arrested because he is the CEO

slivertongue:


I repeat Buhari has failed the North. No southern president will be so indifferent to his peoples security concerns

Not every action soldiers solve, banditry is beyond force, the so called Northern states have failed their people, not just the President, if you say so, why do Ipobians cry when same banditry is going on with their so called Fulani Herdsmen? I don’t hear separate Nigeria because of banditry by people from the North?

adamsmith914:
Not every action soldiers solve, banditry is beyond force, the so called Northern states have failed their people, not just the President, if you say so, why do Ipobians cry when same banditry is going on with their so called Fulani Herdsmen? I don’t hear separate Nigeria because of banditry by people from the North?

You ain't from here so u don't know the damage. The North is already a failed entity. This banditary thing gained prominence with the coming of Buhari &his indifference in calling his kinsmen to order. The security forces ain't doing much. They should just allow self defense and see if the nonsense will continue. They are more with the bandits. Buhari is a Northerner & charity ought to begin at home but he is more of a disaster at home. He is the Commander in Chief &the governors submit to him security wise

How do you explain to an average Northerner that they are the biggest victims of Buhari?

clarocuzioo:
Bandits are business men and not Terrorists.


benuejosh
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You're so dumb!

Bandits business is really thriving after deh finished collecting taxes in sokoto communities e sure me say deh will move to another failed northern state and the story goes on...

Oyeah let's keep pretending Buhari is not the soul behind all this