The Nigerian Air Force has said the the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji destroyed bandits’ base in Zamfara.
Okay Nigeria News learned that the bandits’ camp is located at a Doumbourou Forest in the state.
Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday evening in Abuja.
He revealed that the airstrikes operation was conducted on Saturday.
“The operation was executed yesterday, May 25, pursuant to human intelligence reports indicating that some locations within the forest were being used by the bandits as hideouts, including a group of huts belonging to a notorious kingpin named Dangote.”
“Accordingly, following confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, an Alpha Jet aircraft was detailed to attack the bandits’ camp, leading to the destruction of their structures and neutralisation of about two dozen bandits,” he said.
Furthermore, Daramola disclosed that the NAF, in consonance with other security agencies, would sustain its operations to flush bandits out of the North-West of the country.