Katsina state police command in North-West Nigeria have arrested over fifty suspected bandits/kidnappers/armed robbers/cattle rustlers.
The state police commissioner CP Sunusi Buba stated this while addressing newsmen at the command’s Headquarters in Katsina.
CP Sunusi Buba Said During the period under review the Command has carried out various sting operations in several locations within the frontline local government areas, busted and arrested many suspected bandits terrorizing Katsina state.
According to the commissioner, the command recovered ten (9) AK 47 rifles, twenty(20) locally made guns, two (2) motor vehicles, twenty (20) motorcycles, two hundred and twenty (220) rustled cows, and money the sum of six hundred and eighty-five thousand naira (N6,85,000:00K).
The Command also killed fifteen (15) bandits and rescued twenty (20) kidnapped victims in the ongoing war against all forms of crime and criminality in the state.
Sunusi Buba added that On the fight against the menace of Rape bedeviling the state, a total of one hundred and forty (140) suspected rapists were arrested in eighty-seven (87) reported cases, and all were charged to court for prosecution. We are synergizing with traditional and religious leaders and other relevant stakeholders including parents to ensure that the menace is brought to the barest minimum.
According to the police commissioner based on a tip-off, the command succeeded in arresting one Abdullahi Sani, ‘m’, aged 30yrs of Dungu – Yankara village, Faskari LGA of Katsina state a member of a notorious Camp of Adamu Aleiro Na-Yankuzu, terrorizing Faskari, Sabuwa, Dandume, Kankara and Funtua LGAs of Katsina state.
Commissioner Buba further told Newsmen that In the course of investigation suspect confessed to be a member of the said syndicate who has taken part in many attacks on Katsina state communities which include among others Kadisau village – Faskari LGA, Yardoka village, Dandume and Kankara LGAs where they robbed, Killed, Kidnapped and rustled domestic animals of innocent citizens.
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CP Sunusi Buba said it could be recalled that Adamu Alieru Na-Yankuzo has been declared wanted by the Command for various crimes against humanity in the state and Investigation is ongoing.
