Special forces eliminate kidnappers operating along Kaduna-Abuja highway

<p><strong>Special forces deployed to tackle the incessant kidnapping of travellers along <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Kaduna-Abuja highways<&sol;a> have eliminated scores of bandits suspected to be behind recent abductions&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A video footage obtained by <em>PRNigeria<&sol;em> shows the corpses of more than a dozen kidnappers that were killed this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A security source told <em>PRNigeria<&sol;em> that there was a massive deployment of troops comprising military&comma; police and intelligence operatives in selected communities along the highways&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Before the Presidential directive&comma; some deployments were however made&period; The directive has now influenced more deployment and provision of equipment and intelligence gathering tools to fight the bandits&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have so far killed more than a dozen armed bandits who attempted to escape on motorcycles after sighting the movements of the troops&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Most of them are behind recent abductions on the highways as some people identified the corpses as known faces within the communities&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>” a top military source told <em>PRNigeria<&sol;em> on the condition of anonymity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>PRNigeria<&sol;em> reports that President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; on Thursday&comma; gave marching orders to the security chiefs to go after insurgents&comma; bandits and terrorists&comma; at the meeting of the National Security Council&comma; saying they must not rest until all Nigerians sleep with their eyes closed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president also ordered security agencies to intensify surveillance and patrol activities along the Abuja-Kaduna Road&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;