Battle of Sandema

He recruited people from Grunshie Mossi, Hausa and Fulani as fighters who took part in slave raids in the Northern Territories.

[2] It is said Babatu brought the people of Zabarma state to its peak of power and prestige in the late 1880s.

Babatu was defeated in a battle that took place in a hill between Sandema and Fiisa called Azagsuk.

[6] After the Zabarma were defeated, their weapons were collected as relics of war and kept in Fiisa which has a shrine in Sandema.

The Feok Festival is celebrated every year in the third week of December to mark their victory and encounter with the slave raiders and also the War dance after it became a public event in 1972.