Zamfara banditry: 6,000 IDPs return home

Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier-General John Agim, has disclosed that over 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have returned home in Zamfara state.
Agim made the disclosure on Friday while speaking with journalists in Gusau, the state capital, stating that the return of peace and security in Maradu, Shinkafi and Zurmi Local Government Areas led to the massive return of the IDPs to their respective villages.
Agim said farming and other economic activities had picked up again as bandits no longer had freedom to operate in such areas, noting that Zamfara, which was once bedeviled by incessant killings due to banditry, cattle rustling, kidnappings and armed robbery, was now assured of safety of lives and property.
He said with the support of Air Task Force (ATF), the Operation Sharan Daji (OPSD) had recently launched series of air strikes against bandits’ hideouts and camps in Sububu and Rugu forests.
The acting director of defence information said the attacks had successfully neutralised a large number of armed bandits and destroyed their camps, adding that the momentum would be sustained, and the tempo in the fight to wipe out criminality in the state would also be increased

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