The Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, made the appeal.
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The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said this in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja.
The Air Force said the aircraft was on a casualty evacuation mission when the crash happened.
The development was made known in a statement issued Tuesday night by the spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA) Silas Saba, in Minna, the State’s capital.
ASP Wasiu Abiodun, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
The police also announced the arrest two suspects over alleged kidnapping in Shiroro Local Government Area.
In a statement on Sunday in Minna, Mary Noel-Berje, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, said the government was disturbed by the incidents.
Two persons have been confirmed killed as armed bandits numbering over 100 on Sunday morning invaded Erena community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
Following renewed attacks by armed bandits in over 13 communities in both Shiroro and Rafi local government areas, which left nine persons dead, properties destroyed and many kidnapped, the representative of Niger East Senatorial District, Mohammed Sani Musa, has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency set up a permanent Military Base in Shiroro, Munya and Rafi local government areas to help stem the tide of banditry.
The Niger State Government said it would no longer dialogue with bandits terrorising the state, but would evolve new strategies to bring to end their activities.
An early morning attack by armed bandits numbering over 60 riding on motorcycles have caused pandemonium in Madaka and neighbouring communities in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called on Service Chiefs and security agencies in the country to immediately swing into action by repelling the attacks and assaults by armed bandits on Nigerians across some states in the north.
The Nigerian Air Force says it is offering free medical services to about 3,000 victims of banditry from Chukuba and Kwaki Communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
Senator David Umaru on Tuesday took a swipe at the Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello, for giving different figures of death and injured victims in the recent bandit attacks in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.
Two years after renovating three schools to very good standards, the representative of Niger East Senatorial District, David Umaru, has raised the alarm that the Chairman of Shiroro Local Government Area has refused to send teachers there to work.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Dibal Yakadi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Minna.