About 15 women were abducted and made to help the bandits carry the looted foodstuff packed in sacks from the communities. They, however, promised to release the women after helping them to evacuate the foodstuff to a particular location. The Saturday operation only lasted for one hour and the bandits went away with sacks load of foodstuff and other items looted from shops in the town. “We saw a helicopter moving around the communities for about six times when the bandits were operating but the helicopter did not attack the bandits. “We did not know what the helicopter was doing in the air because bandits were operating freely on the ground.

Source: Punch January 25, 2021 08:48 UTC