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A rival war among bandits terrorising Kajuru and Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State led to the killing of a notorious bandit, Nasiru Kachalla, and several other bandits in a forest on Monday.
The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, said security agencies confirmed the incident to the state.
The commissioner said Kachalla and his men, who have been under the watchlist of security operatives, had been on the run “masterminding several criminal acts, including kidnappings, killings, cattle rustling, and banditry”.
According to him, the notorious bandit and other gang members were killed in a clash between his gang and a rival group of bandits.
TODAY
December 28, 2020
A wanted notorious bandit in Kaduna State, Nasiru Kachalla, has been shot dead in a battle of supremacy with rival bandit group.
Security agencies confirmed the death of Kachalla to the Kaduna State Government on Monday.
Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, said Kachalla, who has been on the run for masterminding several criminal acts, including kidnappings, killings, cattle rustling and banditry, was killed in a clash between his gang and a rival group of bandits.
He said human intelligence networks confirmed that criminals from the rival sides were also killed, including some of Kachalla’s lieutenants.
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Security agencies have confirmed the killing of a notorious bandit, Nasiru Kachalla, a Kaduna State official has said.
This is contained in a statement by the Kaduna commissioner for internal security and homeland affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Monday.
Mr Aruwan said Mr Kachalla, “who has been on the run for masterminding several criminal acts, including kidnappings, killings, cattle rustling and banditry,” was killed in a clash between his gang and a rival group of bandits.
Mr Aruwan, in the statment, also explained how the clash occurred.
“Human intelligence networks confirmed that criminals from the rival sides were also killed, including some of Kachalla’s lieutenants.
The recent abduction of 344 students of the Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State from their school hostels is the single most audacious mass kidnapping since the crime became rife in Nigeria.
The Kankara abductions drew the attention of the global community almost in the way that the 2014 abductions of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok by Boko Haram did.
While the Kankara boys have been released after six days in captivity, over a hundred of the Chibok girls remain unaccounted for.
Other mass abductions of students in the country included the Dapchi abductions of February 19, 2018, where jihadi group, Boko Haram, stormed a school in Borno and kidnapped 110 students.