{"id":17349,"date":"2020-06-01T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:50:51","slug":"zamfara-nigerian-troops-kill-4-bandits-bombs-logistics-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349","title":{"rendered":"ZAMFARA: Nigerian troops kill 4 bandits, bombs logistics warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Defence-Media-Operations-John-Enenche.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian military faults Amnesty Int\u2019l report, says no child in its custody\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/nigerian-army-say-they-killed-135-bandits-destroyed-their-hideouts-in-katsina-zamfara\/\">Nigerian Army troops<\/a>&nbsp;of the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI have confirmed the killing of no fewer than four terrorists and the bombing of their logistics warehouse approximately five-kilometre North of Birnin Kogo, in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was revealed in a statement on Sunday by Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, who stated that the airstrikes were executed after Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement by Enenche read in part: \u201cThe Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has destroyed a bandits\u2019 logistics warehouse approximately five Kilometer North of Birnin Kogo in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe airstrikes were executed on May 30, a sequel to Human Intelligence, HUMINT, reports, which were later confirmed by a series of aerial surveillance missions, showing that the large structure was being used by bandits to store their ammunition, raw rations and other logistics items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/over-1000-boko-haram-iswap-terrorists-killed-in-six-weeks-by-nigerian-troops-buratai\/\">Over 1000 Boko Haram\/ISWAP terrorists killed in six weeks by Nigerian troops \u2013Buratai<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFour armed bandits guarding the facility were also killed as a result of the attack,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came days after the Nigerian military has faulted a report by rights group Amnesty International (AI) that it is subjecting children in the northeast ravaged by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/Boko-Haram\">Boko Haram<\/a>&nbsp;insurgency to unlawful treatment and detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday said that there were no children detained in any of its detention centres across the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Army troops&nbsp;of the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI have confirmed the killing of no fewer than four terrorists and the bombing of their logistics warehouse approximately five-kilometre North of Birnin Kogo, in Zamfara State. This was revealed in a statement on Sunday by Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ZAMFARA: Nigerian troops kill 4 bandits, bombs logistics warehouse &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Insurgency\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"ZAMFARA: Nigerian troops kill 4 bandits, bombs logistics warehouse\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ZAMFARA: Nigerian troops kill 4 bandits, bombs logistics warehouse &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17349#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Insurgency","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ZAMFARA: Nigerian troops kill 4 bandits, bombs logistics warehouse"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24\" rel=\"category\">Insurgency<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Nigerian Army troops&nbsp;of the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI have confirmed the killing of no fewer than four terrorists and the bombing of their logistics warehouse approximately five-kilometre North of Birnin Kogo, in Zamfara State. This was revealed in a statement on Sunday by Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, who&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17349"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}