The Nigeria Police Force, Sokoto State Command, has apprehended five suspected terrorists locally referred to as bandits in Sokoto State, situated in the North-West region.

This was made known by security expert, Zagazola on X platform (formerly Twitter), while revealing that the arrested bandits operated mostly in Tambuwal and Bodinga local government areas of the state.

He wrote: “Police in Sokoto have successfully arrested some bandits terrorising people around  Tambuwal and  Boɗinga in Sokoto state. They also recovered arms from the kidnappers.”

On Thursday, Kachalla Duna Tagirke, one of the bandit kingpins terrorising Sokoto, was also reportedly arrested.

Kachalla had been operating under Bello Turji Kachalla, a notorious terrorist and bandit leader operating in northern Nigeria, particularly Zamfara, Sokoto, and Niger states.

Bello Turji Kachalla in 2022 had said the then-President Muhammadu Buhari’s government was uninterested in ending banditry because some of its officials benefitted from it.

He had made the allegation in response to an aerial bombardment of his residence by military jets.

He had also accused the government of inciting them (terrorists) to break their peace treaty with the residents.

He had earlier led his gang to carry out a massacre in Zamfara earlier that year, killing nearly 200 people, including women and children.