Troops nab in-law to terrorists’ commander in Kaduna

Dogo Gide, the terrorists’ commander’s in-law identified as Kenkere, has been arrested by troops led by vigilantes at Kagarko market in Kaduna State.

City & Crime report that Dogo Gide, a terrorist commander in a video claimed responsibility for shooting a Nigeria Air Force jet at Shiroro, Niger State, in which some soldiers and senior officers lost their lives last week.

Confirming the arrest of the terrorists’ commander’s in-law through telephone on Sunday, a security source who preferred anonymity said Kenkere was arrested last Thursday, at Kagarko market in the area.

He said Kenkere who rears cows and resides at Fulani settlement in Janjala village in the area has been evading security arrest over two weeks ago.

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“You know the terrorists’ commander is married to one of the daughters of Malm Kenkere who stays at a Fulani settlement in Janjala village here in Kagarko,” he said.

He said the terrorists’ commander’s in-law was picked up after intelligent information that Dogo Gide sometimes comes to hide at his in-law’s settlement in Janjala.

“In fact, intelligent information also revealed that most of the attacks and kidnapping that happen around villages in Kagarko Local Government Area were carried by the boys of the terrorists’ commander, Dogo Gide,” he claimed.

Another resident of Kagarko town, simply identified as Jamilu, told our reporter that the terrorists’ commander’s in-law’s cows and those of some others were rustled by bandits earlier this year, but said those of the terrorists’ commander’s in-law, Kenkere, were returned to him the next day.

“Yes, I am telling you confidently that early this year; between February and March, precisely, when bandits attacked me at the Fulani settlement in Janjala and rustled Kenkere’s cows and some other Fulani but to our surprise, Kenkere’s cows were returned to him the next day,” he said.

Our reporter recalled that Janjala and many communities in Kagarko Local Government Area of the state have been under siege by bandits where cows are rustled and some villagers were abducted.