A joint secret operation by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the military has degraded about 45 bandits around Kuchi town in Munya LGA of Niger State.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE learnt that the secret service had trailed the bandits and aborted an invasion on the villages to orchestrate massive attacks, planned by kingpin Dogo Gide, and his foot bandits.
Sources revealed that Gide had invited the terrorists who were from Bilbis forest in Maru LGA of Zamfara State and some parts of Kaduna State to attack villages in the Kuchi area.
According to the sources, “In the early hours of Monday, June 2, 2025, bandits from Kaduna and Zamfara States, numbering about 100, heavily armed with sophisticated weapons, advanced towards Kuchi town in Munya LGA.
“However, operatives launched a surprise attack and waylaid the bandits in the outskirts of Kuchi town. The operatives engaged the fleeing dissidents in a gun duel, which saw the elimination of the bandits, with several injured and motorcycles and ammunition recovered. Meanwhile, the reports also indicate that five of the DSS operatives sustained severe injuries and are currently hospitalised.
“This ambush which is a part of sustained offensives against the bandits, followed the earlier decimation of over 50 bandits, which has dealt a heavy blow on Dogo Gide who in the past months has been losing huge territories to the superior firepower and covert disruptions by operatives deployed to these troubled spots.
“Serious heat has been turned on them, and we hope they will be sustained. We pray that these efforts, by the SSS that appear quite new and aimed at saving our communities from the bandits, will continue.”
