{"id":7246,"date":"2025-06-26T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:54:13","slug":"bandits-capture-take-control-kankara-lga-in-katsina-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/06\/26\/bandits-capture-take-control-kankara-lga-in-katsina-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits capture, take control Kankara LGA in Katsina State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed bandits led by kingpin Babaro have stormed Kankara LGA of Katsina state and taken over the entire area.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst, Bakatsine, revealed in a post on his X handle that the bandits have already killed several people and banned farming activities in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Bandits led by the feared warlord, Babaro, seize control of Kankara LGA, Katsina State. Farming banned from Marabar Kankara to Yantumaki, dozens killed\/kidnapped, healthcare collapsed.<br \/>\nResidents beg Gov Dikko Radda &amp; FG for urgent intervention,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CNX47dH1jo4DFZpdpAQdZ5IspA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kankara has long been a hotbed of terrorist attacks and kidnapping activities in Katsina state.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are yet to comment on the situation as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed bandits led by kingpin Babaro have stormed Kankara LGA of Katsina state and taken over the entire area. Security analyst, Bakatsine, revealed in a post on his X handle that the bandits have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}