Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command has neutralised 12 suspected bandits/kidnappers, together with their kingpin, ‘Madaki Mansur’ who has been terrorizing residents of Alkaleri Local Government Area, as effectively as different neighbouring States of Taraba, (*12*) and Gombe.
A press launch by the Command’s PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili stated that, “in our combined efforts to stem the menace of banditry in Bauchi State, especially in Alkaleri L.G.A., the command was at its best recently.”
According to him, on the nineteenth December, 2022, at about 0230hrs, a Joint Operation of safety operatives engaged suspected bandits/kidnappers in 4 totally different hideouts: Mansur, Digare, Gwana and Dajin Malam in Alkaleri forest.
He acknowledged that following the sizzling change of superior fireplace-energy by the operatives, 12 of the kidnappers have been neutralised, whereas others have been subdued, dislodged, and scampered into disarray into the close by bushes with attainable gunshot wounds.
Weapons and operational bikes have been recovered throughout the operation.