Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed another notorious bandit commander, Babangida Kachala, in Kogi State. ADVERTISEMENT The operation took place on September 5, at a hideout near Tunga under Operation EGWUA A TITE II.
Troops also ambushed a bandit courier at Agbede–Adankoo Bridge, seizing weapons and supplies. Disclosing this in a statement on Saturday, a spokesman for the 12 Brigade, Lieutenant Hassan Abdullahi, said the suspect was the second-in-command to Kachala Shuaibu, leader of a gang operating within Masalaci Boka and Ofere Forest areas of Kogi State.
He said the operation was executed by troops of the 12 Brigade, under Operation ACCORD III, in collaboration with Other Hybrid Forces.