Joint Task Force Northwest Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) troops rescued 31 kidnapped victims in Sokoto State.
This comes as the Northwest Operation, led by Major General Godwin Mutkut, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division Nigerian Army, Sokoto, intensified the onslaught and conducted a series of clearance operations to terrorist/bandit enclaves in its areas of operations in the North-West.
Captain Yahaya Ibrahim, the spokesperson for Operation Hadarin Daji, said in a statement released on Wednesday in Gusau that troops cleared Alya Fulani village, Buani Forest, where 30 kidnapped people were rescued, during a recent clearance operation conducted on Tuesday in the Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State.
He added that all the discovered terrorists/bandits’ hideouts were destroyed as the terrorists/bandits abandoned their captives and fled from their camps before the arrival of the aggressive troops.
The troops also proceeded to Goboro village where one female kidnapped victim was rescued as the terrorists/bandits fled in disarray due to the troops’ superior firepower.
The commander commended the gallantry of the troops, charging them to do more and continue to deny the terrorists any freedom of action.
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