A schoolteacher and youth leader in Bungudu, a town in Zamfara State (a conflict-prone state in northwestern Nigeria), has alleged that members of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG) — a state-formed auxiliary security force — attacked and seriously injured him on the orders of the local government chairman. Hassan Bungudu says CPG officials lured him from his workplace, drove him out of town, and beat him with a gun butt before taking him to the chairman's residence for a further assault, apparently in retaliation for his backing of a rival candidate in a local election. The CPG's spokesperson said the agency had received no formal complaint but pledged an investigation, while the incident adds to a pattern of abuse allegations against the force, which was previously linked to the extrajudicial killing of a local official in 2024.