A video clip has surfaced online depicting a bandit leader displaying new naira notes that is beyond the reach of many Nigerians.
In the clip, the bandit leader who spoke fluent Hausa said he has the new notes stashed in sacks.
Watch:
View this post on Instagram
Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have rescued 16 citizens in operations spanning Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road and a location in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna.
Aruwan also confirmed that three suspected bandits have been neutralised and three firearms, one explosive, and 11 motorcycles recovered.
“According to operational feedback, the troops responded to a distress call along the Udawa-Manini axis of the Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road.
“The troops arrived to foil the attack, rescuing 15 persons in the process.
“Some of the rescued persons who sustained injuries were rushed to hospital for treatment.
“Similarly, troops of Operation Forest Sanity responded to a distress call from Gonan Doctor village, Igabi LGA, and laid ambush at a likely crossing point in Maraban Huda village.
“Contact was made with the bandits, and following a firefight, one bandit was neutralised,” he said.
He said a kidnapped victim was rescued, though injured by the bandits, and was rushed to the Jaji Cantonment Hospital for treatment, one motorcycle was recovered.
Aruwan further disclosed that in response to credible intelligence of bandits’ movement around an interstate boundary area, troops of Operation Forest Sanity set up ambush positions around Mangoro general area around Chikun-Birnin Gwari LGA, on the boundary with Shiroro LGA of neighbouring Niger State.
“The troops engaged the approaching bandits and neutralised two.
“The troops also recovered one AK47 rifle, one pump action gun, one Improvised Explosive Device, one Baofeng Radio, and 10 motorcycles,” he said.
The commissioner said Gov. Nasir El-Rufai received the reports with gratitude, and expressed satisfaction at the breakthroughs recorded by the security forces.
“The Governor commended the troops for the successful rescues, and prayed for the quick recovery of injured victims,” Aruwan said.
The Nigerian Air Force has explained that they neutralized a certain number of armed bandits during multiple airstrikes in Tshohon Kabula community in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State on Monday morning.
Reports say that many of the bandits were killed after an ealier exchange of gunfire with the state joint security taskforce in another local government Gwada community of Shiroro local Government of the state.
A source from the area said the Air Force airstrikes on the bandits location were conducted today at about 9:00am, which many were neutralized while others escaped with various degrees of injuries.
Findings show that the State Joint Security Taskforce had engaged the bandits in a gun battle along Gwada road on their way to Egwa village for an unknown mission which lasted for hours.
It was gathered that it took a reinforcement of the joint security taskforce from Erena area to defeat those who were in large numbers even as three security personnel sustained injuries during the fight.
Additional info from another source has it that before the Sunday evening attack, the security agents were allegedly put on alert for a planned attack by the gunmen to the area.
Recall two days ago, bandits killed a councilor representing Allawa Ward, Mallam Sale Yakubu while his personal assistant escaped.
However, efforts to get reaction on the development from the state government and the state police spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun failed as at the time of filing this report.
The Nigeria Military is fighting really hard to ensure the environment is safe for forthcoming elections in the country.
Gunmen killed at least 8 persons in a repeated attack on Thursday 19 January 2023 at about 2100hrs in Abagana community opposite the Internally Displaced Person camp routed along Makurdi/Laafia lane, Benue State.
Information available indicates that the attack took the life of a family of six, and another two persons were beheaded.
An eyewitness told newsmen that eight other persons were seriously injured and were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
“Some of the victims were beheaded and their heads taken away. The bushes are still being combed in search of more victims.
“A man, his wife and four children were all wiped out in the attack.
“The casualty figure may likely rise as three other persons were fatally shot and may not survive the injuries to their chests,’’ the eyewitness said.
When contacted, the police spokesman in Benue, SP Sewuese Anene confirmed the attack, adding that the casualty figure has yet to be ascertained.
Anene said the police had deployed personnel to the scene to forestall further attacks.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Abagana is a sprawling community in Makurdi, the State capital of Benue, along Makurdi-Abuja road, housing thousands of people displaced from their ancestral lands and are living in the IDP camp set up by the State Government.
“The bandits did not even come with herds of cattle. They were armed to the teeth. So far, eight corpses including women and children have been recovered while several others seriously injured were evacuated to hospital for treatment.
“Some of the bodies were beheaded and their heads taken away by the bandits.,” Nathaniel Ikyur, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed in a statement.
Special Adviser on Security Mattters to the Benue State Governor, Lt. Col Paul Hemba, rtd who confirmed this said security personnel and other villagers have been combing the bushes for more victims who were said to have been shot by the invaders.
He said the attack was unprovoked as the villagers were already set to go to bed when they met their untimely deaths in the hands of the Fulani bandits.
According to the Security Adviser, the casualty figure may likely rise as some other persons who were fatally shot and wounded may not survive the injuries in their chest.
The Security Adviser gave the names of those killed as Gbashaor Acho, Gbashaor Joseph, Anshe Dekera, Ancho Kpor, Eunice Gbashaor, Sewuese Gbashaor, Terlumun Ajoh, Emberga Gbashaor and Donald Gbashaor.
He further disclosed that two of those killed were IDPs while the bandits stole two motorcycles belonging to the villagers.
Again, suspected fulani bandits attacked Abagana community opposite the IDP camp in Makurdi, the Benue State capital wiping out an entire family of six and several indigenes.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a statement issued and signed by Nathaniel Ikyur
Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom on Friday.
Abagana is a sprawling community in Makurdi, the State capital of Benue State along Makurdi-Abuja road housing thousands of people displaced from their ancestral lands and are living in the IDP camp set up by the State Government.
The bandits who did not even come with herds of cattle were armed to the teeth killed several other persons in sight leaving trails of blood.
So far, eight corpses including women and children have been recovered while several others seriously injured were evacuated to hospital for treatment.
Some of the bodies were beheaded and their heads taken away by the bandits.
Special Adviser on Security Mattters to the Benue State Governor, Lt. Col Paul Hemba, rtd who confirmed this said security personnel and other villagers have been combing the bushes for more victims who were said to have been shot by the invaders.
He said the attack was unprovoked as the villagers were already set to go to bed when they met their untimely deaths in the hands of the Fulani bandits.
According to the Security Adviser, the casualty figure may likely rise as some other persons who were fatally shot and wounded may not survive the injuries in their chest.
The Security Adviser gave the names of those killed as Gbashaor Acho, Gbashaor Joseph, Anshe Dekera, Ancho Kpor, Eunice Gbashaor, Sewuese Gbashaor, Terlumun Ajoh, Emberga Gbashaor and Donald Gbashaor.
He further disclosed that two of those killed were IDPs while the bandits stole two motorcycles belonging to the villagers.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his anguish over the death of seven personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), who were ambushed and killed by bandits in Kaduna State while on official duty.
In a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday in Abuja, Buhari described the loss of the NSCDC personnel as a tragic event and salutes the courage of the men who gave their lives to the nation.
He said: “The NSCDC personnel who braved all challenges to guard our nation and its people had made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
“My thoughts are with the bereaved families and their compatriots in the service. May Almighty God grant them and the entire service the fortitude to bear the loss.”
The president therefore directed the Armed Forces to smoke out the bandits who inflicted this casualty and make them pay the price.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed that seven of its personnel alongside five other persons were ambushed and killed at Kuriga mining site, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The NSCDC Director of Public Relations, Mr. Olusola Odumosu told NAN on Tuesday in Abuja that the five others were from a sister security agency and local vigilance group.
He said that one NSCDC personnel escaped the attack with injuries and is currently undergoing treatment.
Odumosu said that the attack which occurred on Monday at about 10 a.m, was unfortunate and a big loss to the Corps and family of the deceased
He further said that the attackers carted away rifles of the slain operatives, adding that the remains of the officers and men had been deposited at Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna.
Meanwhile, the Corps has lost three other personnel from the National Headquarters in a car accident on Monday evening.
The accident victims were a female personnel and two male operatives.
A married man, Nuhu Umar Usman, 40, mistook his second wife, Ladi Nuhu Dangarfa for a bandit and shot her dead in the middle of the night in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Confirming the incident on Friday, Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil in a statement said trouble started when the man’s two wives had a misunderstanding which their husband tried to settle to no avail.
The senior wife’s son had threatened to attack his father and as a precaution, the man slept with his Dane gun beside his bed at night.
The statement affirmed: “There was an altercation between the wives, to the extent that the eldest son holds grudges against the father and threatened to harm him. This made the suspect load his Dane gun and kept it beside him throughout the night waiting for an intruder, possibly his eldest son.”
On December 28, 2022, Usman slept in the same room with his second wife but was not aware when she stepped out of the room at 2 am to urinate. While returning to her bed, the husband woke up and reached for his gun on hearing suspicious movement close to his bed.
The shot he fired hit his wife who fell down, unconsciously. She was rushed to the General Hospital Burra but certified Dead-on-Arrival by the doctor.
According to the statement, the suspect has been arrested and would be charged to court after the completion of investigations.
The Police Command in Katsina State has neutralized a suspected terrorist while repelling their attack on Magamar-Jibia, Jibia Local Government Area of the state.
The command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, said this in a statement in Katsina.
“Today Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 at about 0430 hours, terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically with AK47 rifles, attacked a police nipping point at Magama-Hirji junction, along Jibia-Katsina Road.
“The policemen engaged the terrorists in a fierce gun duel and successfully repelled them,” he said.
He said that one of the terrorists was neutralized, and one AK47 rifle was recovered with four magazines containing 90 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition of AK47 rifles.
Isah added that money and other exhibits were also recovered.
According to him, many of the terrorists and two policemen also sustained injuries.
Isah revealed that the injured policemen were taken to Jibia hospital for treatment and had already been discharged.
He further said that search parties were still combing the area with a view of arresting or recovering more dead bodies of the terrorists.
In Sokoto, a group of suspected bandits at the weekend attacked and killed Asara ward chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gwadabawa local government of the state, Alhaji Iliya Agajiba, alongside his elder brother.
Gwadabawa local government area is one of the worst hit by bandits on the eastern wing of the caliphate where cattle rustling and banditry activities have dominated communities.
The attackers numbering about 15 were said to be armed with sophisticated weapons when they invaded the community.
An eyewitness and resident of the community told reporters that the suspected bandits attacked the residence of the deceased chairman, killing him and his elder brother who attempted to rescue the chairman.
Efforts to get the confirmation of the police in Sokoto on the incident failed.
Police in Ogun has arrested three suspects over an alleged attempt to kill a police officer, Akinpelu Sunday, while carrying out his duties at Orile Imo in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state.
Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Abeokuta yesterday.
Oyeyemi said the suspects were arrested on Saturday while attacking the policeman and attempting to burn a police towing vehicle so as to prevent an investigation into the cause of an accident.
He explained that following the report of an accident, which occurred on Saturday at Orile-Imo area, the police sergeant attached to the traffic section of Owode-Egba Divisional Headquarters was detailed to rescue the victims and recover the vehicles involved.
Oyeyemi added that on getting to the scene, the suspects attacked the policeman and the towing vehicle driver with sledgehammer, stick and other dangerous weapons.
He stated further that the policeman and the towing vehicle driver managed to escape from the scene and ran to the station, with varying degrees of injuries.
“The Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba division, Olasunkanmi Popoola, led his men to the place where he met the suspects who had already poured petrol on the towing vehicle and were about setting it ablaze.
“Three of the hoodlums were arrested while others escaped, but petrol was recovered from them,” he said.
Barely three weeks after bandits killed an abducted victim in Kubwa, a satellite town of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), four men were abducted in the early hours of Sunday, New Year’s Day.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reliably gathered that the bandits were over 15 and invaded the Kubwa extension after Biazyn and abducted four at about 2 am.
A source privy to this development told TNG at Baipe, where the incident took place, that “when they came, they knew those that they wanted to kidnap and they surrounded their houses.
“They kidnapped two Igala men, one Yoruba and a Tiv man in our area this morning.
“One thing about these bandits is that they are not scared of policemen. They only fear soldiers and the case of the Yoruba man was so pathetic because he was stabbed in the glare of his heavily pregnant wife.
“The wife was appealing to them to spare him and even offer money but they threatened to stab her too.
“Despite stabbing him in the chest they still carried him into the hills where they always come from to raid us.
TNG recalls that a similar incident occurred in Kubwa barely three weeks ago and one of the victims was killed.