Police on
Monday paraded seven members of a vicious kidnap for ransom gang responsible
for severe kidnapping, armed robberies and other Criminal activities on the
Abuja/Kaduna highway
Parading the
suspects at Katare, Kaduna State, the Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh
Moshood said the suspects were arrested by police personnel attached to
'Operation Absolute Sanity' for kidnap for ransom and other violent crimes in
Abuja-Kaduna Highway
The suspects
and place of arrest are:
1: MOHAMMED
MUSA
GIDAN BUSA
2: MUSA
HASSAN
RIJANAH
3: MAMUDA
ADO
MARARABAN
JOS KADUNA
4: HUABU
MUSA
MARARABAN
JOS KADUNA
5: SANI
ABUBAKAR
AKLIBU
VILLAGE
6: SHEHU
ALH. ADO
RIJANAH
7: ABUBAKAR
BELLO
RIJANAH
8: MOHAMMED
GARBA
AKILIBU
VILLAGE
9: USMAN
BELLO
RIJANAH
10: KABIRU
AHMADU
RIJANAH
11: USMAN
FULANI GAMBO
RIJANAH
12: ABUBAKAR
ABDULLAHI
RIJANAH
13: YAHAYA
USMAN
RIJANAH
14: SULEIMAN
LAWWAN
RIJANAH
15: AWAL
MADAKI
AZARA
16: YAKUBU
MUSA
AZARA
17: ALIYU
YAHAYA
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
18: AMINU
SHUAIBU
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
19: ALHAJI
UMARU MOHAMMED
BIRNIN GWARI
20: SANI
FULANI (AKA JANARA)
BIRNIN GWARI
21: AHMADU
RUFAI
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
22: SHUAIBU
MUSA
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
23: IBRAHIM
ILLO
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
24: ALHJ.
UMARU AUTA
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
25: BELLO
TUKUR
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
26: MOHAMMED
GAMBO
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
27: MOHAMADU
ADAMU SIKIRU
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
28: MOHAMMED
TUKUR IBRAHIM
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
29: SAIDU
MOHAMMED
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
30: ABUBAKAR
ABDULLAI
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
31: DAN-
ABSABE ISAH
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
32: AUWALU
ABDULLAHI
ABUJA –
KADUNA HIGHWAY
Exhibits
recovered from them includes four AK 47 RiflesI, six locally made pump action
gun and two magazines.
The
Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris concerned with the occurrence
of cases of Kidnappings in the recent times on Abuja-Kaduna Highway, has
deployed a
Joint Police Team comprising Special Police Force, Police Mobile
Force, Counter Terrorism Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence Response
Team, Special Tactical Squad, the Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile
Force with Headquarters at Rijanah, Kaduna State. The Joint Police Team are
under specific and definite mandate to rout out the kidnap for ransom gangs and
armed robbery gangs that have being terrorizing the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the
recent times. The operation is to
complement and augment the on-going Joint Police/Military operations on the
ground.
Within the
first week of the commencement of the operation Absolute Sanity, the above
mentioned suspects were arrested in their hideouts and the exhibits listed
above were recovered from them. They have made confessional statements
indicating the various criminal roles they played in the commission of the
crime. Most of them have been identified by some of their victims. They will
soon be charged to court on completion of investigation.
Meanwhile
the Inspector General of Police has commended and appreciated the communities
and people in the towns and villages along Abuja –Kaduna highway for their
cooperation with the Police personnel deployed for the operation. He however,
implored commuters, travelers and other road users to support the Police
personnel in the discharge of their responsibilities and in the implementation
of other crime prevention and control strategies of the Force. The operations
will be sustained and is being replicated in all other Highways and major roads
across the country.
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