By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The Nigerian military said its troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI in conjunction with Police and local vigilante deployed at Dandume LGA of Katsina State, have rescued 39 kidnapped girls and rescued 8 rustled cattle.
The military in a statement issued on Sunday, by Major General, John Enenche,
Coordinator, Defence Media Operations,
Defence Headquarters, said the troops received a distress call at about 11:30 PM on 19 December 2020 from locals at Mahuta village that suspected bandits were moving with unconfirmed numbers of Islamiya children mostly girls and rustled cattle.
Is said the report indicated that the children were returning from Maulud programme at Unguwar Al- Kasim village at Dandume.