Normalcy has been restored to “bandit-infested” Abuja-Kaduna Expressway following President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to deal mercilessly with highway criminals across the country.
Prior to the Presidential Order, bandits had operated along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway for four consecutive days.
During their operations, they abducted an unspecified number of travellers.
Buhari had in the week under review again directed security agencies to urgently address the resurgence of kidnapping and other crimes on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and on other roads across the country.
The President, who presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on November 25, assured that Nigerians would soon witness serious security improvement as specific orders had been given to all security agencies to tackle security challenges across the country.
Following the Presidential Order, the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with other security agencies recorded a breakthrough as many bandits, including a notorious bandit terrorising the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, Yellow Magaji Arusa, were neutralised.
A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Kaduna State Command, ASP Muhammed Jalige, on Saturday confirmed the killing of Magaji alongside some members of his gang.
The police killed Magaji when they raided a facility known as Sir Joe Guest Inn, located at 8, Sajo Street, Unguwan Maigero Area of Sabon Tasha in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
“It is significant to state that the neutralised bandit Yellow Magaji until his demise was among a syndicate of bandits terrorising Kaduna-Abuja highway of recent,” Jalige said.
The security officials were also reported to have ambushed some of the bandits around Kaduna South Local Government where they had gone to buy “alcohol and pentazocine; an opioid pain medication”.
