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  • Bandits Attack Travellers Along Kaduna-Abuja Highway, Kill APC Chieftain, Kidnap Others

    Bandits Attack Travellers Along Kaduna-Abuja Highway, Kill APC Chieftain, Kidnap Others

    Bandits on Sunday attacked the Abuja-Kaduna highway, killing a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sagir Hamidu.

    Hamidu who was a former director of Protocol in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), recently ran for the governorship position in Zamfara State and is said to have had his eyes on the seat come 2023 elections.

    He was reportedly wounded fatally by bullets from the guns of the bandits who shot sporadically, leaving several others injured.

    Witnesses say the gunmen also kidnapped many travellers and carted away some valuables they could instantly lay their hands upon.

    Although the police authorities are yet to confirm the incident, a senior government official of the Kaduna State government told Channels Television that the bandits wielding dangerous weapons blocked the Katari village axis of the Abuja-Kaduna highway at about 2:00 pm.

    The attack lasted for over one hour after which the marauders whisked away several persons to a destination yet to be identified.

  • Assasins assassinate Zamfara Governorship aspirant

    Assasins assassinate Zamfara Governorship aspirant

    A 2023 governorship aspirant in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sagir Hamidu, has been shot dead by assasins disguised as armed bandits.

    The incident occured on Sunday when the assailants opened fire on travellers along the ever-busy Kaduna-Abuja Highway.

    According to Daily Nigerian, he was killed alongside other travellers.

    The Kaduna State Police Command could not be reached for a comment as at press time.

    The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige did not pick our calls and did not respond to respond to text messages forwarded to him by the press

  • Bandits kill two police officers in Katsina

    Bandits kill two police officers in Katsina

    Two officers of the Katsina State Police Command lost their lives in a gun duel with bandits on Thursday.

    ASP Yakubu Joshua, attached to 27 Police Mobile Force (PMF) Katsina and Sgt Zaharadeen Yuguda attached to Safana Division were killed by the hoodlums in a crossfire at their hideout at Baure village in Safana Local Government Area of the state.

    The State Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba, disclosed this on Friday while briefing pressmen at the police headquarters.

    However, CP Buba said the police team led by the Dutsima Area Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP, Aminu Umar were able to dislodge the hoodlums, killing two of them in the process and recovered one AK-47 rifle with 35 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition among other items.

    Buba said: “On 18/11/2021 at about 1700hrs, based on credible intelligence, Area Commander, Dutsinma, ACP Aminu Umar, led a combined team of policemen and vigilante to Bandits’ hideout at Baure village, Safana LGA of Katsina state and engaged the bandits in a fierce gun duel.

    “The team succeeded in dislodging the bandits, killed two notorious bandits and recovered one AK 47 rifle with thirty-five (35) rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition of AK 47 rifle.

    “In the course of scanning the scene, two unregistered motorcycles Kasea and Boxer, vest of charms were recovered.

    “Sadly, two gallant police officers – AP.NO.151332 Asp Yakubu Joshua, attached to 27 Police Mobile Force, (PMF), Katsina and F/NO.264575 Sgt Zaharadeen Yuguda attached to Safana Division, paid the supreme price and died in a crossfire.”

    He urged members of the public to cooperate with security agencies by giving them credible information on bandits and their collaborators.

    He further assured members of the public that the police remain “resolute and committed in the ongoing fight against recalcitrant bandits until they are arrested and dealt with in accordance with extant laws of the land.”

  • BREAKING: ISWAP suffers devastating loss in an attempt to attack Damboa

    BREAKING: ISWAP suffers devastating loss in an attempt to attack Damboa

    The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) suffers devastating attack, when they tried to attack Borno largest local government Damboa

    The aggressive pack of armed terrorists met their ends, when they were intercepted by the Airforce and the ground force of the Nigeria military

    A source noted that:

    The terrorists were first sighted around Mandara Garau Yesterday while converging in large number of trucks. They fled after they sighted the Airforce Jet. Again, they returned this Morning.

    Sources added that they wanted to attack Ex-Militant transit camp in Sabon Gari, Damboa.

    but at each time they tried to infiltrate, they are met by superior forces of the Nigeria Army

  • Bandits Impose New Heads And Payments Of Fines On Sabin Birni Villages, Sokoto

    Bandits Impose New Heads And Payments Of Fines On Sabin Birni Villages, Sokoto

    By Muhammad Goronyo,Sokoto

    The attention of Sokoto State Police Command has been drawn to the above purported story in circulation online and other media outlets that bandits impose new heads on sabon birni villages and payments of fines.

    The command is using this medium to reassure member of the public particularly residents in Sokoto state that, the command did not rest on its oars in fighting against banditry and other criminality in the state.

    With reference letter numbered AZ/5250/SKS/PRD/VOL.111/194 dated 8th November 2021,sent to the press by the Commands’ spokesman ASP Sanusi Abubakar, said investigation reveals that, the above claim of bandits imposing heads on Sabon Birni villages is not substantiated. “We equally device so many proactive strategies and intelligence policing to ascertain the genesis of such claims. However, there is an ongoing operation which the driven force is under “Operation Hadarin Daji” including the military, Police, Airforce and special forces . Soonest, this operation will be taken to the bandits camp and normalcy will be restore in areas affected by banditry activities”.

    Members of the press as well as general public are enjoined to continue to support the security operatives in the ongoing Operations against banditry and other criminal elements in the State.

  • House of Reps gives Buhari 24 hours to Declare Bandits ‘Terrorists’

    House of Reps gives Buhari 24 hours to Declare Bandits ‘Terrorists’

    The House of Representatives Committee on Army has again called on President Buhari to declare bandits terrorists to enable the Nigerian Armed Forces to prosecute war against them.

    The Chairman of the committee, Abdulrazak Namdas, made the call when the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya, appeared before the committee to defend the budget proposed for 2022 in Abuja on Friday, November 6.

    It was the second time the committee was urging Buhari to take the action within 24 hours. The House had on September 30, 2021, a day after the Senate passed the resolution, asked Buhari to designate bandits, who have dominated the North-West and parts of the North-Central geopolitical zones, and their sponsors as terrorists.

    The lawmakers made the demand when the Training and Doctrine Command of the Nigerian Army in Minna, Niger State, came for budget defence earlier on Thursday.

    Namadas while speaking at the budget defence said

    “My committee members have said I should repeat what I said yesterday before TRADOC yesterday, that they are a training institution and we charge them to train more on terrorism and banditry because these are actually challenging issues.

    That was the main reason why we in the National Assembly – both the House and the Senate – have passed a resolution urging the President to also designate bandits as terrorists so that it can enable the Army to tackle the challenge headlong. We know at the moment that there are technical challenges with using our equipment because of certain conditions.

    At least, we urge the President to please help sign this because right now, the activities of bandits are getting even more sophisticated – more than even what is happening in the North-East.”

    Namdas also observed that the morale of officers and men of the Nigerian Army was low in terms of accommodation, noting that they could only be the best if they were psychologically stable.

    “It is our hope that the Armed Forces Fund Bill currently awaiting concurrence at the Senate, when passed and assented to by the President, will help tackle some of these major challenges” he said

    Speaking to journalists after the closed-door session, Namdas criticised the amount allocated to the Nigerian Army in the 2022 Appropriation Bill for capital expenditure as inadequate.

    “In 2021, the capital (expenditure) was N29bn; today, in 2022, it is N28bn. So, instead of moving up, it is going down. Actually, the money is very small. There is a need for us to sit down and see how we can help the Army move forward.

    “Agreed, we have done enough in the supplementary budget, but the capital component of it for the whole 2022 is N28bn. We can’t do much with the money.”

    Another challenge we are faced with is that, even if you have 100 per cent of the money on the ground, you have to place an order. Army equipment is not something you buy over the shelf.

    “Even when you placed (an order for) Tucanos, it took you how many years to get here? Even if you budget this year and you go and inspect certain things, you will not see them immediately because they come based on the timing that is allowed.”

  • Bandits’ informants have exposed some Politicians – Gov Matawalle

    Bandits’ informants have exposed some Politicians – Gov Matawalle

    Governor Bello Matawalle has said that some of those working with bandits have confessed to being sponsored by politicians.

    Matawalle made the claim in an interview on Lagos-based RadioNow. The Governor of Zamfara state who didn’t reveal that identities of the politicians exposed by those collaborating with bandits, also said that these politicians have been telling bandits not to believe and enroll for his government’s amnesty and reconciliation programme because they don’t want him to succeed.

    He said;

    “After we initiated the dialogue, you know it was supposed to be a collective effort — between the government, the people of the state and other political gladiators. Unfortunately, when the government is trying to make sure we have peace, some political elites are thinking they don’t want us to succeed.

    “So they’ve been making so many unprecedented comments about the dialogue issues and the reconciliation. And some of them that have connections with the criminals have been telling them all sorts of things so that they shouldn’t believe the government’s amnesty and reconciliation.

    “We have some records. Some of the informants that were arrested, we have over 2000 informants under the custody of security agencies, and some of them have opened up and indicted so many people. They said some of the politicians are the ones funding them, telling them the state and federal government are not serious on what we promise to them.”

  • Zamfara Police Rescue Two Kidnapped Victims

    Zamfara Police Rescue Two Kidnapped Victims

    The Zamfara State Police Command yesterday said it rescued two kidnapped victims. In a statement by the command public relations officer (PPRO) Mohammed Shehu Superintendent of police (SP) said in its continued search and rescue operations across the state, the command has succeeded in the unconditional rescued of two kidnapped victims abducted on 16th October , 2021 at Magami District of Kaura Namoda Local Government of the state.

    The statement further said the victims were rescued unconditionally during an extensive search and rescue operations conducted at Dumburum and Gidan Jaja forest in Zurmi Local Government in the state

    He added that the rescued victims have undergone medical treatment and have been debriefed by the Police.

    He said the Commissioner of Police, CP Ayuba Elkanah sympathised with the victims for the trauma they went through within the period they spent in captivity .

    He assures the people of the state that, Police in collaboration with other security agencies and state government would continue to work assiduously to ensure the unconditional rescue of all kidnapped victims across the state.

    The CP further called on members of the public to continue to support the security operatives in the ongoing operations against recalcitrant bandits and other criminal elements in the state.

  • Again Bandits attack Baptist Church killed 2, abducted scores in Kaduna

    Again Bandits attack Baptist Church killed 2, abducted scores in Kaduna

    ..Citizens are being killed like chickens – CAN

    By Gabriel Udeh, Kaduna

    Suspected gunmen on Sunday reportedly invaded the Baptist Church, Kakau Daji in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing two and allegedly abducted scores.

    The President of the Kaduna Baptist Convention, Rev. Ishaya Jangado, who confirmed the incident however stated that the exact number of those abducted were yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
    He said “The incident occurred this morning but we don’t know the exact number of people that were kidnapped yet.

    No official statement has been issued to confirm in incident by either the state government or the police as the Kaduna State Police Command’s spokesman, ASP Mohammad Jalige, could not respond when contacted through his mobile telephone.

    However, Chairman of the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Joseph Hayab, while reacting to the incident, said the attack was “another sad story of how deteriorating our insecurity has become.”

    Hayab added: “Citizens are being killed like chickens with only press statements as consolation. These evil people have troubled us for too long.

    “I condole with the families of the Baptist denomination and Kaduna Christians for these losses and urge our security agencies to separate war against enemies of Nigerians from politics. No one knows who will be the next target”, he said.

  • Declare bandits Federal Workers – Shehu Sani tells FG

    Declare bandits Federal Workers – Shehu Sani tells FG

    Senator Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has asked the government to go ahead and declare bandits as federal civil servants since it is becoming difficult for them to pronounce them terrorists.

    Well-meaning Nigerians, individuals and groups have provided various reason the Buhari administration should declare bandits’ groups in the North as terrorists.

    However, the government has remained adamant to the calls, saying that there is a process to declare a group as a terrorist organisation.

    Bandits and kidnappers are on rampage in the North West, killing, kidnapping and maiming residents.

    In a tweet on Monday morning, the former lawmaker represented Kaduna Central District at the 8th Assembly, said, “They [bandits] killed Muslim worshipers in their mosques in Niger and Katsina State; they killed Christians in their Churches in Kaduna State; if the Government doesn’t want to declare them terrorists, it should declare them federal civil servants.”