November 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Nigerian authorities have announced this Saturday the death, in a military ambush, of Dogo Maikasuwa, leader of a prominent group of “bandits” in the state of Kaduna.
Maikasuwa, also known as “Dogo Millionaire”, operated together with his cronies in the local area of Kajuru, where he orchestrated numerous kidnappings and murders, following the traditional modus operandi of these organizations that have been unleashing chaos for years in remote areas of Nigeria.
According to Kaduna State internal security and internal affairs commissioner Samuel Aruwan, “Dogo Millionaire” led a series of attacks and kidnappings of citizens along the Kaduna-Kachia highway and in the communities of Chikun and Kajuru.
The deceased was known as one of the region’s “deadliest bandits” and his group is accused of executing hostages if they perceived the ransom to be insufficient.
Security forces “successfully neutralized the bandit leader and recovered an AK-47 assault rifle, a magazine, five rounds of ammunition, two motorcycles, and a camouflage military uniform.”
“The other bandits escaped with gunshot wounds. It was further learned that one of them died from wounds sustained in the fierce battle, and his remains were carried away by other fleeing elements,” according to Aruwan’s statements reported by the Nigerian newspaper ‘Premium Times’.
Ultimately, Maikasuwa was ambushed by Nigerian security forces in a forest in the general Gengere-Kaso area, between the two aforementioned communities.
The Kaduna “bandits” have become a scourge for the country’s authorities, who have even declared these organizations terrorist groups to facilitate security operations.
This has not prevented them from continuing to act with almost complete impunity in attacks that follow the same pattern: they break into state towns on motorcycles, open indiscriminate fire against their residents, kidnap some of the survivors and flee before they authorities can react.
Likewise, “bandits” also include armed groups that intervene in favor of some side in the numerous inter-community clashes that have plagued the African state for decades and kidnappers specialized in assaults on educational institutions in the northwest of the country, such as in the state of Zamfara. .
