Boko Haram: JTF urges Kano residents to go about their lawful businesses

The Joint Security Taskforce (JTF) in Kano has urged Kano residents to go about with their lawful businesses
without any fear. A statement issued on Tuesday in Kano by JTF spokesman Ikedichi Iweha urged the residents to continue to
give security operatives the necessary support and cooperation. “The JTF will continue to count on you for the provision of information as it assures you of the utmost
confidentiality in dealing with such information. “The JTF will also like to use this medium to reiterate its resolve to continue to work assiduously towards the
protection of lives and property in the state,’’ it said. It said that following further operation in suspects’ hideout on Monday night, some items which included two AK
47 rifles and two pump action rifles were recovered. Others were one berretta rifle, one smoke discharger, 433 rounds of 7.62 Nato ammunition, 80 rounds of 7.62
special ammunition and two AK 47 magazines, the statement said. It also said that 36 prepared IEDs, 13 laptops, two motorcycles, four printers, one photocopier, one 33 slots zenith
disc writer, one TG 3900Ez generator set, religious books and large quantity of CD plates were recovered. The rest were two decoders, two satellite dishes, one 21” television set, one DVD player, 2 bags of urea fertiliser,
one elite dry cell 12v battery, one blue gate UPS, one stabiliser, 10 hand-held motorola radios and five battery
chargers, it added. “This latest encounter with the terrorist group has foiled its planned attack to wreck havoc on the good people of
Kano State. It has equally further depleted the terrorist group’s capacity to operate, ’’ the statement added. (NAN) Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.