A stray lion has been killed by hunters in deserted Sambisa Forest in the Konduga Local Council of Borno State.
The lion is believed to have strayed from the Waza Game Reserve of Cameroun before it was intercepted and killed by the hunters on Tuesday, March 15.
Confirming the incident in Maiduguri, the Director of Forestry and Wildlife in the state’s Ministry of Environment, Peter Ayuba, said;
“The lion might have strayed from the Game Reserve of Cameroun. We have similar incidents of elephants from the Reserve entering villages in Kala/Balge council of the state.”
“There is also an incident of some hyenas killing a man in the bush in Kaga Local Government Area.
“Absence of human activities in some rural communities for several years has transformed many farmlands to thick forest,” Ayuba said.
