 Now over 50 kidnapped victims in the custody of a notorious bandit in Zamfra estate, Bella Toji, have regained the freedom. Co-Chairman of the State Committee on Finding Lasting Solutions to Banditry, Dr. Abdullah Shinkafi, confirmed their development. Shinkafi said the victims were released unconditionally due to military airstrikes on Bandit's camps in Zamfra and Sakura Forest. Now called into report, two bandits died from the yarnslot while others sustained severe injuries. The police have said arrangements are being made to evacuate all freed victims to the state capital, Kosovo, for profiling and medical treatment before they are released to their families. We are now being joined by Ibrahim Dosarad, the Commissioner for Information in Zamfra State. Good evening to you. Many thanks for joining us on Lost Leaves Now. Commissioner, if you can hear us, can you bring us up to speed about the victims who were released today? Was there any sort of negotiations on ransom paid? Yeah, good evening. Yeah, good evening to you. Yes, it's nice having me this time around. The issue of the rescued kidnapped victims in Zamfra State is an appreciation effort and it happened due to the intense pressure from the military who are currently undertaking onslaught into the enclaves of the Bandit and, as a result, the skimping of the Bandit refugee had to abandon the kidnapped victims and then later use the retention bandit who collaborate with the police and the vigilante differently constituted by the government to go and rescue these people. And the government received them. We are currently taking care of them in terms of medication, in terms of food, in terms of clothing and giving them lecture psychologically from both of them before they are handed over to the sole administrators of their respective local government councils and who will later realize them to their respective families. And we are hoping anytime soon we will hand them over to the sole administrators for onward reunification with their families. Okay, you just said anytime soon. Can you be more specific as regards the time frame when they are going to be reintegrated? And besides, you said you've actually given them some sort of care that some food. What about the issue of psychological trauma? What are you doing in that regard so that when these victims are reintegrated into society you will not have some sort of post traumatic disorder? That is why I said we are giving them lectures to psychologically comfort them to make them feed like Gabba, I mean any other persons in the society. And there when they go back to their family we have also Imam and Islamic religious leaders also preach on them to make them relieve from the trauma they went through and also feel free and relate to other people within the society. So specifically now giving terms really how soon would they be reintegrated back you know to their homes and their families? Like I said anytime soon when we understand they are okay then we send them back to their families. It could be tomorrow, it could be within the weekend. It all depends on the situation we see they are. All right let's still talk about security and the fight against it in your state specifically. Now the president has come out to say that there's no room for state police in. Specifically what is the government of Zampara state doing to ensure that residents are secure and they can go about their legitimate businesses while you know going to bed with both eyes closed? You see the issue of security is something that you cannot come on media and start exposing the plans you make because once the other opponents or the enemies hide your plans they will also restrict the guys. So we'll not be able to tell exactly the planning we are making but what we are saying we are actually in the general public that the people of Zampara state will be fully secured through the process and strategies we are making. We are mapping a lot of plans that we will make sure that these bandings are neutralized or they are pushed out of Zampara state. So in verbally are you telling us candidly that the residents of Zampara state can actually go about their lawful businesses without having to fear about them being attacked anytime by bandit or kidnappers or just general criminals? Yes like I told you the foreign state government has the security of life and property of the citizenry as its top agenda and it is its top most priority and as such we are making a lot of consultations with the military, high command, the presidency and even the authorities of the neighboring countries to make sure that we collaborate together have a side of energy that will be able to make sure that these bandings are pushed out of Zampara state or do not have any means of getting supplies of their weak points and the other need necessary needs. We also make sure that we prioritize on the federal government to give us a large number of proofs so that we have enough manpower in the security sector to be able to neutralize a bandit and the measures we took in the past has to have to gradually in preventing the bandit from getting the information from their informants and their collaborators that do give them information and other support. We have dealt with that issue seriously following the measures we took in the past where we blocked the mobile network and also prevent people from buying quails and supply of old goods to the forest. We have achieved a lot in this sector and we are making other plans to make sure that these people are not given a breathing chance so that our people will be free and they go about in their normal businesses. Well thank you so much I'm commissioner for your time. You are welcome. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.