Over 128 persons rescued from bandit captivity in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State were yesterday reunited with their families by the Federal Government.
The victims, comprising men, women and children, were freed in two waves of military and intelligence operations earlier this month, according to National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
Ribadu assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would intensify the onslaught against terrorists. He vowed that there will be no safe haven for criminals. He gave the assurance in Abuja yesterday.
Ribadu said: “Let me be unequivocally clear: this work will continue. There will be no respite in our operations. There will be no safe haven for those who terrorize our citizens. We will hunt them, we will find them, and we will bring them to justice – or they will meet the same fate as the many kingpins already neutralized by our forces.”
He hailed the military, security and intelligence agencies for their role in the rescue. He described their efforts as a “crushing blow to the networks of terror that seek to undermine our peace.”
The NSA assured Nigerians that the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would sustain both kinetic and non-kinetic measures in the fight against insecurity.
He noted that the government had, in recent months, reunited mothers with their children, husbands with their wives, and communities with their loved ones.
“Each rescue is a victory for the Nigerian people,” he said.
Beyond the rescue, the NSA emphasized that victims would receive trauma care and psychosocial support before reuniting with their families, insisting that ‘healing is as important as the rescue itself.’
