The Nigerian Army under Operation Sahel Sanity on Sunday continued its clearance operations by destroying bandit camps that littered Katsina and the North West region as well as arrest several number of bandits, rescue victims and recovered rustle cows and other properties
Acting Director of Defense Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, in a statement at Army Super 4 camp, Faskari, Katsina State, described the clearance operations as fulfillment of mandate handed down to the army to clear all criminal elements in the North West zone
He disclosed the troops arrested Abdullahi Lawal and Bala Saidu at Sabon Layi and Dandume in connection with their involvement in selling of rustled cattle for bandits, while another bandit named Abdullahi Musa of Giginyu village, Batsari, was also arrested
Also, one Amadu Saleh and Shaibu Ibrahim were arrested by troops at Madachi and Maigora villages, after preliminary investigations confirmed that the suspects were involved in illicit dealings and supplies of logistics to bandits.
Furthermore following reliable information, a group of six bandits with six motorcycles at Dan Aji forest around Yar Mallamai in Kankara LGA Katsina State, were arrested after troops immediately mobilized and laid ambush in the area.
Suspected bandits, who invaded Dayau village in Kaura Namoda LGA of Zamfara, were also neutralised when they fired sporadically while trying to escape on sighting the troops with one motorcycle recovered from the fleeing criminals
Another two suspected bandits, Dayyabu Abubakar and Yahaya Murtala, along Machika-Mararaba road were arrested by troops while another suspected bandits namely Haruna Hassan and Kabiru Abdullahi at Yankara Market and Angwan Boka, identified to be members of a bandits group terrorizing locals in the general area, were also arrested
Furthermore troops on clearance patrol destroyed several bandits’ camps in Daudawai village, Katsina and recovered two dane guns and one locally- made sword and three axes.
Troops, acting on intelligence, raided some suspected bandits’ camps at Gadawa general area with the bandits flawing the area before the troops arrived
