The brazen targeting of transport and state infrastructure reflects a security breakdown that threatens lives and economic prospects.
The train was attacked at night, about 89 km from Abuja station. The assailants used explosives to blow up the rail track before firing at commuters. Within 24 hours, another assault was carried out on the same stretch of tracks using improvised explosive devices, forcing the train travelling from Kaduna to Abuja to stop.
in November 2021, making the activities of Yan Bindiga, Yan Ta’adda and other similar groups illegal.attack According to the report, about 60 per cent of this was paid between January 2016 and March 2020, showing a spike in recent years. In 2021 the International Centre for Investigative Reportingthat at least N1 billion naira was allegedly paid by residents to bandits in north-west and north-central Nigeria.
The line promised relief to many commuters as a safer alternative to the Abuja-Kaduna highway, which has been a kidnappingfor years. Last month’s attacks could reverse all these gains. They threaten the future of public transport in Nigeria, as well as local economies in Kaduna State and adjoining north-western states.
Given the bandits’ changing modus operandi, multi-pronged solutions are needed. Existing security approaches must be reinvigorated, starting with the federal government prioritising targeted visible policing as part of a broader security strategy. This could be carried out by a multi-agency task force comprising the army, police, National Identity Management Commission and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
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