The Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has killed several bandits and destroyed their hideout at Birnin Kogo Forest in Katsina state.
The air strikes, according to Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, was executed on 23 and 24 November 2020, “on the heels of impeccable intelligence reports indicating that the 2 camps, with their clusters of huts, were among the locations being used by the terrorists-affiliated armed bandits to store their sophisticated weapons and plan attacks.”
According to him, the Aerial surveillance missions also established pattern-of-life evidence of the presence of black attire-wearing terrorists at the two locations.
Enenche said: consequently, the Air Component dispatched an appropriate force package of Nigerian Air Force fighter jets and helicopter gunships, which engaged the two locations in successive passes, destroying portions of the camps, including their storage facilities, which were seen engulfed in flames.
He said the HUMINT sources later confirmed that no fewer than 37 bandits were neutralized at Dunya while many more were killed at Birnin Kogo.
” The Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies remain resolute in the fight against banditry and other sundry crimes and will not relent until normalcy is restored to all troubled zones of the country, ” Enenche said.
