The Police
High Command yesterday paraded 32 suspected kidnappers that have been
terrorising motorists along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
The Force
Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Jimoh Moshood, who carried out the exercise at
Katare, Kaduna State, said the suspects were arrested within the first week of
the commencement of the Operation Absolute Sanity launched by the Inspector
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to rid the highways of criminals.
According to
him, those apprehended include Mohammed Musa; Musa Hassan; Mamuda Ado; Shuabu
Musa; Sani Abubakar; Shehu Alh Ado; Abubakar Bello; Mohammed Garba; Usman
Bello; Kabiru Ahmadu; Usman Fulani Gambo; Abubakar Abdullahi; Yahaya Usman;
Suleiman Lawwan; Awal Madaki and Yakubu Musa.
The list
also consists of Aliyu Yahaya; Aminu Shuaibu; Alhaji Umaru Mohammed; Sani
Fulani (aka Janara); Ahmadu Rufai; Shuaibu Musa; Ibrahim Illo; Alhaji. Umaru
Auta; Bello Tukur and Mohammed Gambo.
The rest
were Mohamadu Adamu Sikiru; Mohammed Tukur Ibrahim; Saidu Mohammed; Abubakar
Abdullah; Dan- Absabe Isah and Auwalu Abdullahi. Items recovered from them
include four AK 47 rifles; six locally made pump action guns and two magazines.
Moshood, a
Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), said the suspects have confessed to the
offence, adding that most of them had been identified by some of their victims.
He stated that they would be charged to court on completion of investigation
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