Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) under the Nigeria Police Force have arrested some notorious suspects involved in homicide, kidnapping, armed robbery and criminal conspiracy.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this known while parading the suspects in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Adejobi said the arrest followed a charge on the tactical and operational squads by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba on the need to ensure cases are investigated to a justifiable and reasonable conclusion.
According to him some of the suspects are members of a syndicate actively involved in kidnapping and robbery operations within Bauchi state and its environs.
They confessed to the murder of Musa Mante, a then serving member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly from Dass Local Government Area (LGA)in August 2020, and the kidnap of his two wives and 1-year-old daughter.
CSP Adejobi also said that the suspects confessed to the murder of Mallam Dahiru Suleiman, and a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Garkuwa, who they claimed was a bane to their free operation in the area.
Similarly, 11 suspects who confessed to being members of the Black Axe Confraternity were arrested in Ekpoma, Edo State, following reports on their nefarious activities within the area.
Operatives of the FIB-IRT equally apprehended some suspects for kidnapping and providing information to other notorious gangs
The suspects who operate within Yankwani and Kurami Towns in Bakori LGA of Katsina State carried out the kidnap of a man, his wife and two children from whom they obtained a ransom of N30 million.
“An escapee from the Kuje Correctional Centre in June 2022, one Abdulrazak Isah, aged 27, from Ondo State, who was convicted to life imprisonment for murder in 2013 and had spent 10 years prior to his escape from the detention facility, was arrested at Tafa LGA of Kaduna State for stealing an iPad and a computer monitor from a hotel in Sabon Wuse, Niger State
“The suspect thereafter sold the monitor for the sum of N5,000 and the iPad for the sum of N10,000, before his arrest.
“The FIB-IRT recovered a total of 27 firearms including 10 AK rifles, 1 G3 rifle, 8 pump action guns, 3 locally made pistols, 3 English double-barrelled guns, 633 rounds of live ammunition of different calibres, 8 expended cartridges, and one cutlass from the suspects in the course of investigations.”
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali, assured Nigerians of the commitment of the Police Force to ensure that all criminal suspects are arraigned in court on completion of investigations.
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