BREAKING: Nigerian Police Intel Confirms ‘Large Number Of Bandits’ In Kogi, Lists Secondary School, University As Targets

Constant with the signal, the bandits — some reportedly dressed in navy uniforms — are heavily armed with AK-47 rifles and different subtle weapons.

The Nigeria Police Drive has placed security agencies in Kogi Articulate on a high alert following its intelligence indicating a mass dawdle of bandits into capabilities of Kogi East, Kogi Articulate.

That is in keeping with an internal police wi-fi message purchased by SaharaReporters on Saturday.

The intelligence, shared by the Articulate Intelligence Department (SID) in Lokoja, printed that a well-known assortment of armed bandits fleeing ongoing navy operations in Kwara and Niger States derive migrated into forested areas around Bassa and Anyigba/Ochaja.

Constant with the signal, the bandits — some reportedly dressed in navy uniforms — are heavily armed with AK-47 rifles and different subtle weapons.

The police memo warns that intelligence sources derive identified several high-possibility targets for imaginable assaults.

They consist of: “Ochaja Boys and Girls Secondary Schools; Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba; Banks across Kogi East; Police stations and worship centres.”

The categorised communication extra burdened out that the bandits could well well well furthermore are trying coordinated assaults on extreme public institutions and security facilities.

The police signal reads, “AC INT X INTREP X INFLUX OF BANDITS TO KOGI EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT X INTELLIGENCE AVAILABLE AT THE DEPARTMENT’S DISPOSAL REVEALED THAT X LARGE NUMBER OF BANDITS HAVE MIGRATED INTO FORESTS WITHIN BASSA AND ANYIGBA/OCHAJA AXES X DUE TO THE ONGOING ONSLAUGHT ON THEM BY SECURITY OPERATIVES IN KWARA/NIGER STATES X

“SOURCE DISCLOSED THAT THE HOODLUMS MAIN TARGETS ARE PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS OCHAJA BOYS/GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS X PRINCE ABUBAKAR AUDU UNIVERSITY ANYIGBA X BANKS I POLICE STATIONS AND WORSHIP CENTRES ACROSS KOGI EAST X IT IS FURTHER REVEALED THAT X THE HOODLUMS WHO ARE IN MILITARY UNIFORMS ARE WELL ARMED WITH SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS SUCH AK-47/MILITARY RIFLES X

“IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE X EYE SUGGEST THAT X ACPOL ANYIGBA/SUPOLs BASSA X DEKINA X ANYIGBA X AND EGUME BE INTIMATED TO FORTIFY STATIONS X QUR/PMF PERSONNEL BE DRAFTED TO THE AREA X STOP AND SEARCH/PATROLS BE INTENSIFIED ALONG THE MAJOR ROADS WITHIN THE AREA X MEANWHILE X SURVEILLANCE/INTELLIGENCE IS SUSTAINED X ABOVE FOR YOUR INFORMATION PLEASE XXXXXX ACPOLSID LOKOJA”

Accoedign to the memo, the Articulate Intelligence Department has instantaneous a series of urgent safety features. These consist of: “Instant briefing of all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) in Anyigba, Bassa, Dekina and Egume. 

“Deployment of additional Rapid Response Unit (QRU) and Police Mobile Drive (PMF) personnel to inclined locations. Intensified pause-and-search operations alongside main roads within the senatorial district.

“Heightened patrols, surveillance and intelligence gathering across affected communities.”

The message emphasised the must fortify all police stations in some unspecified time in the future of the threatened axis to pause shock assaults.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Director-Odd of the Department of Articulate Products and services (DSS), Mr. Tosin Adeola Ajayi, on Friday night met with President Bola Tinubu to give an change on the nation’s security grief.

The constructing used to be disclosed by Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, who confirmed that the closed-door briefing took region on the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Though details of the meeting weren’t made public, Onanuga stated the DSS boss equipped a whole overview of newest security challenges and ongoing counter-measures in some unspecified time in the future of the country.

Constant with him, the briefing used to be half of the administration’s routine engagements with security chiefs because the executive intensifies efforts to curb banditry, terrorism and different rising threats.

Friday’s meeting comes amid renewed concerns over assaults in different states and growing calls for stronger federal intervention.

SaharaReporters reported on Friday that President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian executive had stated that it used to be no longer denying the scale of killings in some unspecified time in the future of the country but is taking “significant steps” to contend with security challenges in Nigeria.

The Minister of Data and Nationwide Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who stated this whereas that comprises on Channels Television’s programme on Friday night, stated “Optimistic, we derive got folks being killed, no question about that, and the executive just isn’t any longer shying away or denying this.”