Kebbe Attacks Leave Displaced Families Hungry as Council Steps Up Relief Efforts

SOKOTO: The aftermath of recent terrorist attacks in Kebbe Local Government Area of Sokoto State has left displaced families battling hunger, trauma and uncertainty as they struggle to rebuild their lives away from home.

The attacks reportedly resulted in deaths and the destruction of shops, vehicles and food supplies, forcing hundreds of residents from Kebbe, Ungushi, Girkau, Umbutu, Asarara, Nasarawa and other communities to seek safety elsewhere.

Several displaced residents are currently sheltering in communities within Kebbe as well as neighbouring Jega Local Government Area of Kebbi State, having fled their homes and sources of livelihood.

The Kebbe Local Government Council has responded by launching an emergency relief intervention for affected households and taking responsibility for the treatment of victims injured during the attacks.

Kebbe council chairman, Alhaji Musa Garba Kuchi, disclosed that 240 bags of 29kg garri, 25 bags of kuli-kuli and 12 bags of salt had already been distributed to displaced residents.

He said the food supplies were intended to provide immediate assistance to families whose livelihoods were disrupted by the attacks.

Other items distributed by the council included 200 insecticide-treated mosquito nets, 200 rubber mats, 200 plastic kettles, 200 plastic bowls and other household necessities.

Kuchi described the intervention as an urgent humanitarian response, stressing that the council had a responsibility to assist residents who had been forced from their homes and deprived of their means of survival.

Beyond the distribution of relief materials, the council is also covering the medical expenses of 10 people injured during the attacks.

The chairman said the victims are being treated at the state-owned Orthopaedic Hospital in Wamakko and other medical facilities, with the council paying for prescribed medicines and other required treatment.

He said the patients were responding positively to treatment.

“We are doing everything humanly possible to see to the success of their treatment, including their routine feeding,” Kuchi said.

The council chairman also praised Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto for his swift response to the security and humanitarian situation created by the attacks.

According to Kuchi, the governor’s intervention has offered vital assistance to communities facing the crisis.

Despite the ongoing relief efforts, Kuchi cautioned that food, household supplies and medical assistance were only temporary measures. He said the priority should ultimately be restoring security and creating conditions for displaced residents to return safely to their ancestral communities.

Some beneficiaries expressed gratitude for the council’s intervention while calling on the government and security agencies to step up efforts to defeat the terrorists and bandits behind the attacks.

The displaced residents said their main desire was to return home and rebuild their lives.

They urged authorities to maintain sustained security operations to prevent further attacks, protect vulnerable communities and restore normalcy.

The residents warned that meaningful development would remain difficult as long as communities continued to live under the threat of terrorism and banditry.

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