Troops nab five suspected bandit informants in Niger, recover phones, cash

As portion of efforts to escaped the authorities of insurgents, troops of Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Savannah Shield (OPSS) person apprehended 5 suspected bandits’/terrorists’ informants successful abstracted operations conducted successful Niger State.

Captain Jamilu Muhammed Yahaya, Acting Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force (North Central) Operation Savannah Shield, successful a statement, said troops besides recovered connection devices, cash, and different items linking the suspects to transgression activities.

In different development, troops, portion conducting a regular warring patrol on the Doro axis successful Wawa, Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, apprehended 3 suspected bandits’/terrorists’ informants connected 6 June 2026, adding that investigations showed that the suspects were members of a bandit radical operating successful Duru, on the fringes of Kainji Lake National Park.

Troops besides recovered 2 Tecno keypad phones, 1 MP3 instrumentality containing recorded propaganda and inciting messages claiming the abduction of an idiosyncratic successful Kaduna State and the postulation of a ransom of Sixty Million Naira (₦60,000,000.00), arsenic good arsenic a currency sum of One Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Four Hundred Naira (₦113,400.00).

It said the suspects and recovered exhibits are presently successful custody for further investigation, portion efforts are ongoing to apprehend different members of the transgression network.

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