Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Thursday.

Kachalla Duna Tagirke, one of the bandit kingpins that have been terrorising Sokoto has been reportedly arrested.

Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Thursday.

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 said then-President Muhammadu Buhari’s government was uninterested in ending banditry because some of its officials benefitted from it.

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

He 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.

Then-Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Senator Muhammad Hassan Nasiha, however, announced in August 2022 that Turji had accepted peace.

On September 18, 2022, however, he narrowly escaped death when the Nigerian Air Force bombed his house in Fakai village, Shinkafi local government area, Zamfara state, killing 12 of his fighters and relatives.

On November 14, 2022, the Defence Headquarters declared he and 18 other terrorists wanted and put a N5 million bounty on their heads.

In response to the attack on his home, the bandits' warlord accused the government of violating the peace treaty they had with him to end banditry and protect the people of the Shinkafi axis from any attack.

Turji, speaking on the phone with an online Hausa television channel, expressed resentment over the air raid on his home and the killing of innocent people after agreeing with government officials and community leaders to give up banditry.

He said, “I wonder if truly the government wanted to kill me. I think they only wanted to provoke me by making me renege on my promise not to kill anyone. If they could spot my house why couldn’t they sight and kill me because I only left the house a couple of minutes when the bombardment occurred.

“The people should know their enemy from the onset. The government is provoking us so that we will take revenge on the poor masses.

“The government is only fooling the gullible and naive people that they want to end banditry whereas in actual sense, they are the ones fueling the activities of the bandits and also benefiting from them.

“Peace is priceless and I’m ready to be a peace advocate unless the government wants me to be a warmonger. I’m ready for either peace or war. Whatever, the government wants, we can give them a multitude.”

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters had also reported that residents of Moriki town in the the Zurmi local government area of Zamfara State reportedly paid N10.5 million out of N20 million demanded by Turji, as a form of a "peace deal fee" to spare their town from attacks.

This came a few days after SaharaReporters reported that residents of Gidan Goga town in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State had paid the demanded N20 million to Turji for the same purpose.

sketching:
Sahara Reporters are expert in specific terrorist because they allegedly know some them (at least back in 2015).

So they know the details of all the deals that these bloodthirsty beast are making with government (USING MOBILE PHONE). If they were opposition party members, by now DSS would track them but they are just terrorist/kidnappers.

Difrent:


You don't know SR was created and funded in America?
Who are its funders ?
Ford foundation and co

SR is a CIA tool and Sowore is one of the numerous CIA assets in Nigeria .

Difrent:


You don't know SR was created and funded in America?
Who are its funders ?
Ford foundation and co

SR is a CIA tool and Sowore is one of the numerous CIA assets in Nigeria .

Tradepunter2:


I am Another deadbeat that have zero brain in his head..... I Keep spilling the disgusting trash that fills my head...... I dey very foolish that I can't read make may own comments and move on without insults
Fools like me that don't have anything to say resort to insults

coputa:
This was the reason Sowore was Soo bold and also why the government drop the treason charges against him.America intervened.

Such people should not be allowed to near government house,they are security threat to any nation, they are ready tools to be used by their principal to cause damage

Late MKO Abiola was also a CIA Agent

Difrent:


Also Obj and Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Some Mumu. Kid that don't know anything is arguing with his keyboard above

Tradepunter2:


Hahahaha men you are really a sorry case..... Obj and abubukar is also your fantasy CIA agents?? Omooo you need serious shock therapy to prevent you from induced suicide.... You suffering from psychosis