Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets on Saturday carried out series of sorties in parts of Sokoto and Zamfara States, Northwest Nigeria, killing key bandits’ leaders and their foot soldiers and destroyed their camps.
Specifically, the airstrikes, conducted by aircrafts of the Air Component Operation Hadarin Daji, decimated the bandits’ camps at Dangwandi and Tsakai area of Isa Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State and locations of bandit kingpin Bello Guda Turji, his subordinate commander Bello Buzu along and their cohorts operating within Sokoto and some parts of Zamfara States.
Local sources have also confirmed that bodies of “neutralized” bandits were seen all over the camps just as the bandits’ means of economic sustenance were destroyed while “fleeing bandits were also trailed and neutralized.”
According to the source, “there are strong indications that air strikes conducted by aircrafts of the Air Component Operation Hadarin Daji, in the early hours of Saturday, 20 November 2021, at Dangwandi and Tsakai area of Isa LGA of Sokoto State have led to the deaths of undisclosed number of bandits. Reports obtained from reliable sources revealed that the precision air strikes resulted in the likely elimination and destruction of key bandits leaders, their foot soldiers as well as their properties.
“Specifically, there are strong indications that the locations of bandit kingpin Bello Guda Turji, his subordinate commander Bello Buzu along and their cohorts operating within Sokoto and some parts of Zamfara State may have been struck by NAF aircraft in the strikes carried out earlier today. Local sources have also confirmed that bodies of neutralized bandits were seen all over the camps just as the bandits’ means of economic sustenance were destroyed. Fleeing bandits were also trailed and neutralized.”
The source noted that “the successes being recorded especially through air strikes by NAF aircraft in the North West as well as in the North East Theatres of Operation is indicative that the new strategies adopted by the Armed Forces of Nigeria is beginning to yield the requisite results. Indeed despite the lost of a senior military officer and some soldiers, it is clear that the military is living up to its promise to rid the North and the nation of all criminal elements and their activities.”
