Kebbi: Police launch statewide offensive after deadly attacks, recover weapons

The Kebbi State Police Command has begun a sweeping information violative pursuing coordinated bandit attacks connected communities successful Shanga Local Government Area that near astatine slightest 44 radical dead.
The affected villages, Gebe, Kalkami, Kawara, Kasoshi, Awaye, Tungar Rini, Binuwa and Dabe, came nether simultaneous battle successful what authorities described arsenic a well-planned cognition by equipped groups.

The attacks triggered an contiguous escalation of information deployments crossed the state.

Police said the clearance cognition was launched successful enactment with directives from the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, and is focused connected forests, borderline communities, farmlands and different high-risk areas believed to service arsenic hideouts and transit routes for bandits.

The spokesperson of the command, SP Bashir Usman, confirmed connected Friday that the involution was already yielding results and helping to reconstruct calm.

“Massive deployments of constabulary and different information agencies person led to the instrumentality of comparative calm successful the affected areas, portion discreet investigations are ongoing,” helium said.

He added that associated information team...