The PRNigeria reports that the week-long clearance operation through the troops of Sector 2 and Special Forces Brigade of the Nigerian Army in coordination with the Nigerian Air Force that provided aerial cover and reconnaissance duties, stormed and eliminated dozens of terrorists in the general area.
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The Governor made the call against the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation in the country on Wednesday.
Both bodies, which spoke through their spokesmen on Wednesday, said it was not enough for the Secret Police to raise the alarm, but to go after perpetrators of crimes, as not all those who committed atrocities in the past have been brought to justice.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a group, which identified itself as a coalition of rights activists and scholars, on Tuesday made the allegation in a press statement.
The General Secretary of the Ibarapaland Farmers’ Association, Taiwo Adeagbo, spoke on behalf of the community.
The meeting, according to informed sources, was held on Tuesday and was in continuation of the peace moves by the revered Islamic cleric.
They were also accused of assaulting some police officers.
CP Philip Ogbadu, Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to George Edem, Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, at the corps command headquarters in Benin.
Prince Abuda, who was based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, was abducted last Saturday with two other men and a woman along the Benin-Auchi Road.
It was learnt that on Tuesday at about 9:21pm, the Area Commander, Dutsinma and team responded to a distress call that bandits numbering over 50 on motorbikes, shooting sporadically with AK47 rifles attacked Unguwar Bera and Tashar Mangoro villages of Dutsinma LGA of Katsina State.
He was docked alongside a firm, IDID Nigeria Limited.
Marwa said this in a statement by NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Deputy Corps Commander, Jonah Achema, on Wednesday in Abuja.
The robbers were apprehended on Wednesday at about 1:30pm.
Auwal, who resides at Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters, Kano, is facing one count of attempt to commit culpable homicide.
The spokesman of the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
The defendants, of unknown addresses, are facing three counts bordering on child abuse.
Tawa, whose address was not given, is facing three counts bordering on attempt to steal.
Sholotan, who pleaded not guilty, was arraigned on two counts of intent to steal and stealing.
Testifying in his defence, Ejeh told Justice Peter Kekemeke, that it was a conspiracy against him by some of his former colleagues.
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun delivering her judgment held that all the evidence tendered had convinced the court beyond reasonable doubt that Ibrahim committed the offences as charged.