Troops arrest notorious bandit, Kachalla’s deputy, wife

Nigerian troops have captured Kachalla Auta’s deputy and his wife in Gombe State after an intelligence‑led operation

Nigerian troops have arrested the second-in-command to a notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Auta, alongside his wife in Gombe State. The arrest followed an intelligence-led tracking operation across multiple locations in the state. This was disclosed in a post on X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region. Makama, citing […] Troops arrest notorious bandit, Kachalla’s deputy, wife