By Deborah Nnamdi, Port Harcourt
Kachalla Tukur Sharme, Kaduna’s most notorious bandit leader has been killed in a gun battle with another gang in the forest.
The state’s commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who made the revelation in a press statement, said Sharme and other members of his gang were killed in the fratricidal clash with two rival bandit groups.
He said the gun battle also gave room for some abducted victims of the two groups to escape from captivity.
He also noted that some of the injured criminals are currently seeking medical assistance. This, he said, was gathered from an intelligence source privy to information from the forest.
He said, “The clash occurred over the weekend at a location referred to as ‘Hambakko’in the Rijana and Kaso Forests, spanning Kachia and parts of Chikun and Kajuru LGAs.”
Aruwan also listed some of the attacks carried out by Sharme, including killings and kidnappings in Millennium City, Maraban Rido, and Kujama.
Others are attacks in Kajuru, Maro, and villages in the Kateri general area, as well as in adjoining LGAs of Kagarko, Kachia, and Birnin Gwari.
Sometimes Sharme’s criminal activities extended to neighboring communities in Katsina and Niger states.
The bandit leader was also known to be responsible for the kidnap of 121 students from Bethel Baptist High School, Kujama, Kaduna State, on July 5, 2021.
