“Government must spare no effort to immediately return all our abducted schoolgirls of Maga, remaining Dapchi and Chibok girls in captivity and other places,” said JNI.
Mr Buba added that the operation was conducted on January 17 along the Shinkafi, Kagara, Fakai, Moriki, Maiwa, and Chindo axis.
Mr Bago also called on the citizens to support his administration to succeed.
Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram, and a slew of abductions have taken place since.
The government’s decision was to avoid a further breach of peace in the state.
“Suspected bandits again abduct more than sixty persons, set ablaze houses.”
The elders advised citizens to organise and raise their levels of vigilance.
The assailants abducted 11 persons including seven women and nursing mothers in separate attacks carried in different communities.
“This is open admission to state sponsorship of terror. It speaks volumes,” a political analyst said.
“Even in the most developed countries in the world, school kidnappings take place.”
