This is contained in a statement issued by SP Gambo Isah the spokesman for the police in Katsina.
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The Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Garba Dauran, made this known to newsmen in Gusau.
Three locally fabricated rifles with ten rounds of 7.62mm ammunition and locally made pellets were said to have been recovered from the bandits.
Spokesman for the police in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Katsina.
According to SP Mohammed Shehu, the command’s public relations officer, the police had received a distress call from the village that bandits in large numbers had stormed the area with the intent to attack the villagers.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Shehu Mohammed, in Gusau.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the development in a statement in Kaduna.
Abubakar spoke in a statement by his Media Aide, Dr. Yakubu Suleiman, on Monday.
The bandits, who were said to have invaded the community in the afternoon, also wounded three others who are currently receiving treatment in a Dutsin-ma town hospital.
Gumi said negotiation was ongoing for the release of the students of the privately-owned university abducted by bandits on April 20, 2021.
This followed the threat by the abductors of the students kidnapped in their school on April 20, 2021, along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
Amotekum Commandant in the state, retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Ibadan.
The Senator revealed this when he spoke with newsmen on Wednesday.
A press release signed by Yusuf Idris, the Director-General on Media to the governor, issued to newsmen in Gusau on Wednesday, said that the order was with immediate effect.
The bandits had shortly after the abduction of the students on March, 11, 2021 released a video of the victims and demanded N500 million as ransom for their release.
He said Boko Haram has hoisted its flag in Kaure village of Shiroro local government area after taking over the community.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan said in a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna.
It was gathered that the hoodlums stormed the hospital through the fence, shooting indiscriminately and in the process took away two nurses.
According to Daily Trust, it was gathered that the bandits engaged soldiers on ground in a gun battle that lasted two hours.
The deceased operative, Suleiman Quadir, was said to have been killed in an ambush at the Living Farms in Fiditi on Tuesday.