The police have arrested members of two
notorious kidnap gangs along the Abuja-Kaduna highway and recovered two
AK 47 rifles, 16 locally-made guns, cutlasses and charms...
The Force Public Relations Officer,
Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement that 13 of the hoodlums were paraded
at Jere along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Thursday.
The suspects included the leader, Umar
Babuga, 27; Umaru Kiri, 26; Abdullahi Tambaya; Abdulkarim Musa, 27; Isah
Musa, 30, and others.
Moshood said the arrests were the result
of the deployment of additional two units of special police forces in
the road to complement ‘Operation Absolute Sanity’ on the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
He added that the new units, which were
relocated to some roads around the Jere-Abuja areas, arrested the
suspects in their hideouts and camps and also rescued some of their
victims.
The FPPRO added, “In the operation that
is still ongoing, two different vicious and notorious kidnap-for-ransom
gangs were dislodged in their hideouts and camps between Jere-Kaduna and
Jere-Abuja axis.
“A total of 13 suspected kidnappers were
arrested in the operation and they confessed to the offence and
admitted to the various criminal roles they played in the commission of
the crime.”
Moshood stated that the
Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had directed the Assistant
IGPs and commissioners of police in the zones and commands to replicate
the same anti-kidnap operation on the highways and major roads in other
parts of the country.
“They are also to beef up security in
their areas of responsibilities and ensure massive deployment of armed
police personnel, patrol teams and undercover operatives in black spots,
flashpoints and other vulnerable criminal spots to nip in the bud all
forms of crimes and criminality nationwide,” the police spokesman said.
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