FG vows to chase away bandits as minister, CDS, others storm Sokoto » Naijaloaded

The Federal Government through the Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Matawalle, has promised to eradicate the threat of the pandemic. bandits and other criminal gangs that terrorize the Northwest.

This came as the Minister of Defence, Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa and other senior military officials arrived in Sokoto yesterday with the aim of leading a military assault on the bandits and other criminals plaguing the North-West region.

In a closed meeting with the operational commanders of the joint operation Hadarin Daji at the 8 Division headquarters in Sokoto, Matawalle, he said the Ministry of Defence would provide all necessary support and encouragement to the troops in the war against terrorists in the North-West.

He said:

“We are in Sokoto in line with the presidential directive to eradicate terrorists and other criminal gangs terrorizing North-West. I am optimistic that the operation will put an end to Bello Turji and all others who are causing sleepless nights to the citizens of the region.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is in China for an official meeting, has called the Minister of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff and ordered them to move to the headquarters of the 8th Nigerian Army in Sokoto to hunt down criminals terrorising the North-Western sub-region.”

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is alarmed and concerned about the current issue of insecurity plaguing Sokoto and other states in the North West. Nigeria is not a banana republic, it is a country governed by a constitution and President Bola Ahamed Tinubu has carefully selected us, most of us from the North to carry out the onerous task of fighting insecurity”

During a courtesy visit to Governor Ahmed Aliyu at the government house, the Minister assured the Governor and “the people of Sokoto State that banditry and other forms of criminality in the North-West would soon become a thing of the past.”

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