Insecurity:  Cracks In Turji’s Camp ;Operation Fansan Yamma, Operation Daji Intensify Efforts To Flush Out Terrorist Groups In Nigeria

 Sueleiman Umaru

 For years, the notorious Kachalla Bello Turji, the acclaimed Leader of the Bandits Group and his fighters including his trigger hungry son have been terrorizing the north western states of Zamfara, described as home of the bandits, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, and Niger, home state of former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, rtd.

 Turji, who was said to have engaged the services of spies and marabouts appears to be wreaking havoc in north western and north central state of Niger according to one Zagozama Makama, an analyst based around the Lake Chad Basin, in the north eastern state of   Borno, engages the services of spies and marabouts       

 The notorious bandits group gang Leader and other gang Leaders who were said to have established camps in Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina and Niger states used had used it as a base to attack Communities and hold the people hostage.

Take for instance in Zamfara state, alone, the restless Turji and his followers were said to have established camps in   Fakai,  Zangon Dan Gwandi, Zangon Tsaika, and  Zagon Kagara Communities, described as their strongholds.

 Given the strategic position of Fakai camp, in Shikanfi, Local Government Area may have encouraged the Niger Republic born bandits group gang Leader operating in Nigeria to have used a  school premises in the Community   for the bandits’ storage facility for food items and weapons, making it difficult for the pupils and their Teachers to come in.

 This may have exposed the notorious bandits group gang Leader and his followers to series of bombardments in the recent time from the air wing of Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Daji to compliment the efforts of the ground Troops to dislodge them from the school premises for normal classes to resume.

The notorious bandits group gang leader who was said to have been sighted   around Zangon Gebe recently, surrounded by fighters, armed to the teeth with sophisticated weapons may have known that his life is in danger that he had cared little about the safety of his trigger hungry son and scores of his fighters.     

Gen. Musa: CDS, bandits , Terrorists must be destroyed

Detailed by   General Christpher Musa, Chief of Defense Staff, CDS, and alongside, Lt.Gen.Olufemi Oluyede, Chief of ARMY Staff, CoAS, and Air Marshall Hassan Abubakar, Ch Chief  of Nigerian Air Force NAF,and complemented by personnel from the Nigerian Navy ‘s Special Boat Services, SBS, the Special Forces,  Operation Fansan Yamma, operating in Zamfara state  and Operation Dji,  established to checkmate the activities of the  bandits  in the  entire north western region and Niger state, appears determined ‘’to capture Turji and dismantle his  networks.

Aware that playing into the hands of the Special Forces may signal the end of banditry operations in the north western region, may have given him the audacity to instruct members of his gang ‘’to ambush and waste’’   Operation Fansan Yamma Troops along Isah axis in Sokoto state.

He was said to have also resorted to plan B, which has to do with ‘’the use of guerrilla tactics ‘’ by his gang members his gang to destabilize the ongoing military operations against him across the north western states of Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina and the north central state of Niger.  He got it wrong.

 The Special Forces, which were said to have eliminated many of the bandits group fighters within Turji’s camp in Fakai and other strongholds in Zamfara state and rescued of some Kidnapped victims, whose ransom have been successfully Negotiated to facilitate their release but still been delayed until the Operation Fansan Yamma sudden attack that was said to have spoil all the arrangements to collect ransom that runs into millions of naira from the victims’ families.

 Turji, may have lost his coordinating ability at the Fakai battle ground as attempts to get reinforcement from gang Leaders failed forcing him to flee, leaving his son and scores of his fighters behind to be killed by the advancing Operation Fansan Yamma Troops.

There are indications that he may have fled to one of his notorious hideouts across Shinkafi, Kagara, Fakai, Moriki, Maiwa, or Chindo axis in the north western state of Zamfara state to evade being captured by the advancing Operation Fansan Yamma Troops.    

Air Marshall Abubakar, NAF, Chief, and the air wing of Operation Yamma, personnel may have targeted   the strongholds of Turji, aimed at dismantling   it but the death of his son and other members of his gang l  and the destruction of the school in Fakai   Community, used as logistics base, a resident had said  have begun to hunt him that his life appears to be in shambles.

Turji: dead or alive

    Recall that the notorious Turji , had boasted late 2024, of  going to sustain the terrorist  war in Zamfara and Sokoto states but had abandoned  his hideout   in the notorious Fakai  rock   in the Shinkafi LGA, with some  his close Associates  as Operation Fansan Yamma  Troops presses forward to capture him, to forestall  his escape  to the poverty stricken Niger, Mali or Burkina  to mobilize Mercenaries  to Launch fresh attacks  .

 But   Turji , the source had declared  will find it difficult to beat the military personnel who are on the alert  to it as Operation Fansan Troops  were said  to have strategically blocked the critical escape routes   used by  Turji and his fighters   near  Bandarawa,  Chida and Fakai,  in the past, thustightening the  noose  around him and his runaway Commanders and other foot soldiers.

Even Ado Alieru, another most wanted  bandits group gang Leader , who was Turbaned Sarkin Fulani of Yandoto Emirate by the Emir of Yandoto Daji Emirate, during the the Administration of Bello Matwalle, as governor of Zamfara state and now minister of state, Defense, fears that his  self-proclaimed empire  will crumble sooner than expected  as Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Daji, ramp up  their  offensive  against  Turji and other bandits group gang Leaders and  who could no longer take the heat was said to have  gone into hiding to escape arrest.

Matawalle, the the immediate past governor of Zamfara state may have bowed to pressure to Turban the bandits group gang Leader aimed at finding lasting peace in Tsafe and Yandoton Daji Emirates, that were said to have been regularly attacked by Aleru -led gangs but peace never returned as the bandits gag were said to have continued to have their way : attack, kill and go, questioning the reason why the then government of Alieru, agreed for the bandits group gang Leader to be turbaned.

Ado Aliero goes into hiding to evade arrest

A retired  Nigeria Customs service, NCS,  officer, from Zamfara, state , who spoke to the online Magazine, on condition of anonymity disclosed   that since Operation Fansan Yamma stepped up their  operations  in the flashpoint north  western states  which he described  as part of the deliberate   and sustained campaign ‘’to flush out the bandits group gang fighters from the region and destroy their networks’’, the war is as good as having been won by the Nigerian military and a big blow to Turji.

Senator Abdullahi Gobir,  who is optimistic  that the ongoing  efforts  to combat  banditry and Terrorism  will yield results, in the north western region, noting that if past Administrations had put in such efforts as President Tinubu, banditry and Terrorism would have been eradicated in the country long ago. Hear him: Tinubu  and his security  Team,  are taking  the issue of combating  banditry and Terrorism  seriously  and is  ready  to take bold steps  to address it.

With the successes that was said to have been achieved by the air wing of Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Daji , Special Forces  ‘’ to clip the wings of of Turji  and other gang Leaders in Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi,Kaduna and  Katsina states,  in the recent time, according to analysts  marks ‘’the beginning of a decisive step in achieving lasting peace in    in the entire  region and  the north central state  of Niger.    

Given that there is not much difference between the Bandits Group, Lakurawa Group, BokoHaram  and  ISWAP,  which exists for ‘’t musa, Lt. Gen. Oluyode and Air Mrshall Abubakar,he sake of war, kidnapping and cattle rustling’’  may have informed why the Trio, of Gen Musa, Lt Gen. Oluyede and Air Marshall Abubakar,    had vowed that the Terrorists groups must ‘’be destroyed  for peace to be restored in the  two regions., in the northern part of the Federation , comprising of 13 states.

The restless Turji, analysts, believes had continued to wage the terrorists war in states in north western geopolitical region, ostensibly to protect the interest of his sponsors engaged in illegal mining of   gold and other solid minerals   in Tsafe and Shinkafi, Local Areas of Zamfara, particular.

Worried that he may be killed with the battle being fought both air and land, may have informed why he had resorted to guerrilla tactics to destabilize the ongoing military operations in the flash point northern states.

  He was said to have also  engaged the services  of network of prayer warriors from his home country, Niger Republic  and Maiduguri,  Capital of Borno state, described as home of BokoHaram and ISWAP, Insurgents , in an attempt  to evade  being  captured  by Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Daji Troops, who are acting the script of the CDS.

Abubakar: minister of defense, determined to cripple Turji, bandits group Leader and his followers

In a related development, Muhammed Abubakar, minister of Defence under the present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Administration, had said that the Nigeria military   will need 50 Armoured Personnel Carriers , APC,  in the 2015, budget  to flush out  the  Bandits and   Terrorists Organizations  from Nigeria.

Appearing before the House Committee on Defence in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, recently, the minister, who could not hide his feelings had said that   the supply of the equipment as requested will help the military in the fifght against banditry in the north western region and insurgency in the north eastern states of Borno and Yobe.

He had given his words that if the 50 APCs, could be be provided the military by the Nigerian Government, ‘’ the fight against banditry and Insurgency in Nigeria would be over in two months’’ , noting that the APC, have the capacity  to enter into difficult terrains to flush out the criminal elements with little or no resistance.

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