Africa-Press – Nigeria. Forty-five people kidnapped in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State have been released following renewed peace talks under the Operation Safe Corridor initiative.
The victims, made up of men and women from Guga in Doguwar Dorawa Fulani settlement and Gidan Danmayaki villages, were freed on Monday after negotiations involving a bandit leader identified as Isiya Kwashen Garwa.
Counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, who announced the development on his X handle on Tuesday, said the victims “regained freedom at about 1400hrs” and were immediately received by the lawmaker representing Bakori Constituency in the Katsina State House of Assembly.
According to him, the lawmaker took them straight to the comprehensive health centre in Bakori where health workers “conducted evaluations to ascertain their physical condition after prolonged captivity.”
Makama also said the released victims had already reunited with their families, noting that security agencies and community leaders were maintaining “close monitoring as part of efforts to consolidate the peace process and prevent further attacks.”
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