The so-called bandit kidnapper kingpin who became famous for the abduction of over 300 Kangara schoolboys has been reportedly shut dead by a rival gang in the forest of Auwal Daudawa Kastina state. There is media report to the effect that he met his demise at the hands of a rival gang at Dumburum forest located between Zurmi Local Government Area in Zamfara state and Batsari Local Government Area in Katsina state.

Kankara schoolboys’ abductor purportedly shot dead.

The bandit leader had earlier professed openly to having repented and consequently handed over 20 AK- rifles and other weapons to the Nigerian police. But some days after having done this, he immediately had an about turn and returned to his old ways.

Sources claimed the bandits’ leader was killed while leading his men on a revenge attack on bandits loyal to another gang called Ballolo.

It was gathered that while Daudawa was in Gusau following his repentance, some armed members of the Ballolo camp attacked the position of his men in an attempt to rustle their cattle, killing two of his gang members in the process. It was while on a revenge mission that he was said to have been cut down in a hail of bullets from the rival gang called Ballolo.

Nigeria North East, West, and Central and to some extent the Western part of the country has become a beehive of kidnapping and in local parlance called “banditry” of recent. Kidnapping and criminality has become the order of the day while the government and its security apparatus look on helplessly.