TROOPS of Operation Hadarin Daji has reported that it neutralised 14 bandits terrorising Eldabala village in Tangaza Local Government Area and along Lamba Bakura-Dogo Karfe Road while trying to kidnap a pregnant woman and other 35 victims.
Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, who disclosed this to journalists at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, yesterday, added that 16 bandits’ informants and collaborators including one impostor bearing Faisal Saidu who paraded himself as Lance Corporal Saidu Abubakar were nabbed.
He said, “Within 16th and 29 July, our troops responded to distress calls of bandits and armed mylitia groups’ attacks on civilians at Hanutaru and Dansadau villages in Maru LGA of Zamfara State; along Gusau–Sokoto Road.”
