Security agents dislodge bandits’ camp, recover rustled cattle in Katsina

• Security agents chase, destroy bandits’ camp in Katsina, recover rustled animals
• The hoodlums are said to be currently on the run after being heavily pounded by the joint security team.

Ekohotblog reports that the Katsina Joint Security Forces effectively expelled criminals and recovered several rustled animals from their camps in Katsina State’s Danmusa, Dutsima, and Jibiya Local Government Areas on Sunday.

In a press release published on Sunday, the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Isah Gambo, stated the combined security force raided Kadoji village in Jibiya and demolished the camp of one known bandit named as Bala Wuta.

In the announcement, SP. Gambo added, “Based on reliable intelligence, a combined team of the Nigerian Police Force, the Nigerian Army, and a vigilante group conducted sting operations in KADOJI village, Jibia, at the camp of a known bandit, one Bala Wuta.”

In a related development, the Dutsima Area Commander and his team, also stormed MEGEZOJI, a bandits’ camp at Yantumaki forest and successfully dislodged the hoodlums hibernating there.

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“Similarly, Area Commander, Dutsinma, led a combine team of Policemen to MEGEZOJI bandits’ camp at Yantumaki forest, dislodged the bandits, destroyed their camp and recovered twenty-eight (28) cows and nineteen (19) goats, suspected to be rustled,” Gambo added.

In the course of the operation, SP. Gambo said scores of rustled animals were recovered.

The hoodlums are said to be currently on the run after being heavily pounded by the joint security team.

The State Police Command appealed to the public to provide credible information on bandits and their accomplices to the security agents.

“The Command urges members of the public to cooperate with security agencies by giving them credible information on bandits and their collaborators, especially those supplying them with arms and ammunition, informants and other essential commodities.

“The Command assures members of the public that they remain resolute and committed in the ongoing fight against recalcitrant bandits until they are arrested and dealt with in accordance with the extant laws of the land,” Gambo stated in the statement.