The Sokoto State Police Command said it had neutralised one suspected bandit, arrested 15 suspects and other criminals terrorising different parts of the state, while it also recovered firearms.
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The bandits, it was learnt, were eliminated by air strikes of Nigerian military air troops.
The development was confirmed the Channels TV amid military raids on bandits camps in Zamfara and Sokoto forests.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Jalije, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Kaduna.
Masari said this in Katsina at the NAN Forum, the flagship interview programme of the News Agency of Nigeria.
Mr Saleh Dada, the Commandant of NSCDC in the state, told newsmen on Wednesday that Galadima, 40, had been on the wanted list.
Concerned about the development, the Nigerian Army under the current leadership is devising new measures to tackle the activities of the criminals on its land and in neighbouring communities.
The Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, comfired the killing in a statement issued in Kaduna on Monday.
Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen, on Sunday, in Kaduna.
Security agencies – all with headquarters in Abuja – get away with non-performance as regards the FCT largely because of this false sense of security by residents. No one calls them out. Kidnappings happen and everyone carries on in the invalid hope that banditry cannot get much worse in the FCT.
According to available information, the bandits had struck in the early hours of Tuesday killing two persons, took 23 women and children hostage and rustled 74 domestic animals.
he refugees’ attempt to stage a demonstration by blocking the Kaduna-Zaria Expresswat was thwarted by security agents
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai, has extolled officers and men of the Nigerian Army for the various successes recorded so far in safeguarding Nigeria’s territory.
The Commander of the 207 Quick Response Group of the air force, Group Capt. Caleb Olayera, made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen in Gusau.