By Najib Sani
Bauchi
The renowned Bauchi hunter Alhaji Ali Kwara who specialized in trapping armed bandits across the country has asserted that the deployment of numerous troops of soldiers and Police men to Borno and Yobe states to fight insurgents has contributed to the concomitant return of robbery to Bauchi state which was hither to mitigate to the barest minimum.
He asserted this in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi after he assisted soldiers to kill three suspected robbers in Udubo Village of Gamawa local government area of the state where they also recovered three AK 47 riffles, four magazines, 147 rounds of live ammunition and the sum of over N294, 000 from the hoodlums.
”For some years, we enjoyed relative peace in Bauchi state because we have been able to chase armed robbers from the state, but they recently immigrated from Borno and Yobe axis to northern part of Bauchi state due to the presence of heavy security troops in those states. he said.
Kwara, who opined that armed robbery could only be eradicated by capital punishments, however, berated some elites, lawyers and courts for securing and granting bails to notorious thieves lamenting that such action makes some of them to go back to their nefarious activities.
Meanwhile the Nigerian Army has applauded the efforts of the ‘brave’ hunter Alhaji Ali Kwara for helping security agents in the country to combat armed bandits saying more vigilant groups and volunteers are needed in that crusade.
The commander sector 3 of the 33 artillery brigade Bauchi, Major Suleiman Asuku Yakubu, made this commendation while showcasing the corpses of three suspected bandits killed by the soldiers in collaboration with Alhaji Ali Kwara and his ‘boys’ at the ‘Shadawanka Army Barracks, Bauchi.
Yakubu also solicited the continued cooperation of the general public to the army by reporting any suspicious movements in their environments to any army formations in the state so that his men could respond in good time.
