Volunteer vigilante groups are stepping into a deadly security vacuum across rural Nigeria as armed bandits intensify attacks, abduct schoolchildren and overrun remote communities. With police, military and intelligence units largely absent in deep rural areas, thousands of civilians now patrol villages armed with basic weapons, risking their lives to protect families and farmland. Many vigilantes have been killed while confronting heavily armed bandit groups, yet they continue joint operations with the army and police as they search forested regions for hundreds of abducted students. As fear spreads and schools shut down, these volunteers have become the only barrier standing between terrified residents and relentless bandit violence. #nigeria #vigilante #apt
00:29I'm not scared, because even if you go out, you don't go out and do your house, anything
00:38will happen for you, will happen for you.
00:40And we already put our mind for this work.
00:44This thing, we are helping our sisters and brothers in our communities.
00:59We are helping our sisters in our community.
01:07We are helping our sisters.
01:12We are helping our sisters.
01:18In this situation, we have about 250 people who are in the community and are more than
01:24If you look at the soft target of the banditry in Niger State today, it's within the deep rural areas where we don't have the police formation,
01:54we don't have the military formation, we don't have the DSS formation, but of course we do have the local vigilantes volunteering themselves to safeguard the lives and properties of individuals there.
02:24We don't have to wait to see the police as soon as possible.
02:44We have lost so many members, active members in the active service, some of them from
03:07Shururu, Kontogora Axis, Lapaya Axis, we lost so many of them.
03:37We have to come together so that we help the government agency to achieve what they need,
03:51so that our community will be peaceful or our state will be peaceful.
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