Wednesday, January 1, 2025 - General Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff, has revealed that notorious terrorist kingpin Bello Turji has been driven underground by the Nigerian military, following the elimination or arrest of most of his aides and commanders by troops.
The defence chief stated this while appearing on Channels TV’s 2024
Year-In-Review programme, adding that 120,000 terrorists had surrendered as
some of them were forced into insurgency.
Musa said identification process has been on to separate the masterminds
from those who are coerced into the dastard acts. He vowed that the masterminds
would "face the law.”
This is even as he vowed to arrest Bello Turji in no distant time.
According to him, the commanders of the wanted bandit leader terrorising the
North-West geopolitical zone have been eliminated and his other allies
arrested.
Gen Musa said it was only a matter of time before the military gets hold
of Turji who has wreaked havoc in Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi communities,
destroying and kidnapping residents for hefty ransom.
“The update is that since he knows we’ve
been after him, he has been operating underground and we are conducting
operations,” the CDS said when asked for an update on Turji who has been on the
run for a while.
“What we have been doing, of recent, is
that we are picking everybody close to him; all those giving him support in one
way or the other, we have picked them, we have killed his commanders. It’s just
a matter of time,” the defence chief added.
Turji has on multiple occassions dared the Nigerian Army to arrest him
or attack him at his base.
He has consistently claimed that the Nigerian military knows his location if
they really wanted to arrest him.
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