Return home – Bauchi Police beg fleeing residents after deploying forces to Alkaleri communities

The Bauchi State Police Command has called connected residents who fled Mansur municipality successful Alkaleri Local Government Area to instrumentality home, assuring them that the information concern is present nether control.

Recall that residents of Gwana District successful Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State fled their homes en masse pursuing a deadly onslaught by bandits that claimed the lives of 2 soldiers and a vigilante operative.

The attack, which occurred astir 4:32 p.m. connected February 22, 2026, targeted some the assemblage and a Joint Task Force base.

Eyewitnesses said much than 100 well-armed assailants, riding connected motorcycles successful pairs, struck the communities successful the mediate of the nighttime portion residents were asleep.

Addressing journalists astatine the State Police Headquarters connected Yandoka Road, successful the aftermath of the incident, Spokesman of the Command, SP Nafiu Habib, said the Command had carried retired a thorough information appraisal pursuing renewed threats successful Gwana, Digare and Kafin Duguri communities.

He said the Commissioner of Police, Sani Omolori Aliyu, has ordered a monolithic associated deployment of information unit to the affected borderline communities to suppress transgression elements linked to kidnapping and banditry.

According to him, the troubled areas person experienced recurring information breaches owed to infiltration by equipped groups from neighbouring states.

Habib, however, clarified that wh...