The Public Relations Officer of the Zamfara State Police Command, DSP Muhammad Shehu, told the News Agency of Nigeria of the development on Saturday
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The command’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Administration, Bukar Biu, said at a press briefing on Friday in Gusau that one of the attackers was killed in the encounter.
The latest attack was carried out on Friday
The bandits had earlier threatened that there would be no farming activities in the area in this year’s rainy season
Its commissioner, Kenneth Embrimson, who displayed the corpse of the said kidnapper, told newsmen in Gusau that he was killed in a gun battle with security operatives.
Shinkafi said this on Saturday in Gusau at an interactive session with the National Economic Council Fact Finding Committee and stakeholders on security challenges in the state.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Kenneth Embrimson, disclosed this at a news conference in Gusau on Monday.
The initial death toll was put at 18 by the Zamfara State Police Command
The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Muhammad Shehu, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Gusau on Thursday
According to Bisi Kazeem, the spokesman of the FRSC, Route Commander Birni Kudu regained his freedom in the early hours of Monday
The State’s Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Shaba Alkali, confirmed that the officers had been rescue by the police in Gusau on Saturday.
A press release issued by the command’s spokesman in Gusau, Mohammed Shehu, denied online media reports that the policemen and their DPO were kidnapped.
The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Mu’azu Nalado, who visited the injured personnel at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau on Sunday, condemned the attack, describing it as unfortunate
An eyewitness and resident of the village, Alhaji Musa Daji, who spoke to journalists on Friday, said many residents are now fleeing to Tsafe, the headquarters of the local government, for safety
The State Commissioner of Police, Shaba Alkali, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Friday
The doctors said that the decision also affected family members of the police, including their children
Though the police refused to put a figure to the number of those shot dead, it was gathered they were not fewer than 42
This was contained in a statement signed by the command Public Relations Officer, DSP Shehu Muhammad, in Gusau on Saturday