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Policy House flays killing of three Greenfield students
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, is seeking special military intervention to protect Geidam and other border communities with Niger.
This is as Incentive-Based Programme (IBP) of Policy House International condemned the killing of three Greenfield University students by bandits in Kaduna State.
Boko Haram had attacked Geidam, 180 kilometres north of Damaturu, many times in the last five years. Houses, military and police posts were torched.
Other border communities the governor pencilled for protection include Yunusari, Yusufari and Machina northwest of Borno State. x
Director-General for Press and Media to the Governor, Mamman Mohammed, stated in Damaturu yesterday: “Buni sought special military intervention to safeguard Geidam and three other border communities.”
• El-Rufai Insists Bandits Must Be Fought At All Cost
Three among the kidnapped students of Greenfield University in Kaduna have been shot dead by their abductors, throwing the entire state into panic and confusion, yesterday.
The bandits on Tuesday night attacked the institution and kidnapped an unspecified number of students at the institution located at Kasarami village, off Kaduna-Abuja Road in Chikun Local Council.
The remains of the three students were discovered yesterday in Kwanan Bature village, a location close to the university, and have been evacuated to a mortuary by the Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan and the Force Commander, Operation Thunder Strike, Lt-Col. M.H. Abdullahi.
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• We’re to enforce law, not negotiate with bandits, says El-Rufai
• Shuts schools in Kajuru over kidnapping
Operation Lafiya Dole has killed 41 Boko Haram terrorists in the Gulwa/Musuri/Gambouru axis of Lake Chad region in Borno State.
Also, yesterday, Operation Thunder Strike in Kaduna State killed two armed bandits and rescued four victims in ‘35’ village, Chikun Local Council.
The 45-minute Borno operation also led to the rescue of 60 elderly women and children, who had reportedly been in captivity for five years.
In a statement in Maiduguri, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, declared: “Our troops have decisively taken out several terrorists, after heavy fighting in the Gulwa/Musuri/Gambouru axis on Monday.”