No fewer than 2,000 bandits’ informants have been arrested in Zamfara State following the military operations going on in the state.
This was disclosed by the State Commissioner of Information, Ibrahim Dosara, in a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday.
According to him, “over 2,000 informants arrested and are now providing vital information on how they relate with the bandits and who is or are supporting them.”
He remarked that when the military operations started when the government set up a situation room where complaints were being received from the people and prompt action taken.
“We were also successful in the operation in the sense that many bandits have been neutralized by the army.
“Most of them are forced to eat raw food like millet because they have been cut off from their collaborators,” he stressed.
Also, Dosara stated that the bandits now ride on camels to perpetrate violence, saying, this is an indication that the shutting down of telecom services has succeeded to a greater extent.
“I am happy to announce that after a month, we have greatly succeeded in many areas. One of the successes is making the bandits flee Zamfara State for fear of being killed.
“Just yesterday, the Sokoto Commissioner of Security in an interview said 80 per cent have fled to Sokoto, with only 20 per cent in Zamfara and Katsina,” he said.
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