The Kaduna Status Police Command has arrested 24 suspected kidnappers and recovered 24 firearms, including three AK-47 rifles, as well as hundreds of rounds of live ammunition across the declare.
The Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Rabiu, disclosed this during a press briefing in Kaduna on Wednesday.
He said the command too recovered two AK-47 magazines, 38 live cartridges and a bag containing charms.
According to him, the achievements were recorded by path of intelligence-led operations, surveillance, quick reaction and teamwork together with other security agencies and audience-based security structures.
Rabiu said operatives of Operation Fushin Kada attached to Kudan Community Government Area arrested a 45-year-earlier man, Abdullahi Ibrahim, during a regular patrol along the Maraban Kanja area on September 24.
He said a look for of the suspect led to the recovery of two locally made AK-47 rifles, nine locally made enduring guns, 10 locally made pistols, two AK-47 magazines, 50 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition and 38 live cartridges.
The police commissioner said the suspect told investigators that he obtained the weapons from two individuals identified as Saidu Magari and Mallam Ado, who are at present at sizeable.
In another operation, the command recovered three firearms allegedly linked to banditry and cattle rustling along the Kidandan-Birnin Gwari axis.
Rabiu said the recovery followed intelligence on the activities of one Lawal Umar of Kidandan village, Giwa Regional Government Area.
He said operatives of the Vigilance and Criminal Response Unit (VCRU), Zaria, intercepted a vehicle suspected to have been used to transport arms from Nguru, Yobe Condition, at Dogarawa, Zaria.
The vehicle was found to address an AK-47 rifle, a Category-06 rifle and an LAR rifle, all using empty magazines.
The commissioner said Umar was still at sizeable, adding that efforts were in progress to apprehend him and discover the network behind the movement of the firearms.
He additional disclosed that two suspected members of an arms and ammunition trafficking syndicate, Rayyanu Adamu and Nasiru Abubakar, were arrested approximately Giwa and the railway station axis.
According to him, detectives recovered 270 rounds of AK-47 ammunition and 30 rounds of Category-06 ammunition from the suspects.
Rabiu additionally said police and vigilantes foiled a bandit attack in Gimi Ward, Makarfi Regional Government Area, on September 20.
He said one of the attackers, 20-year-earlier Usman Alhaji Dahiru, was wounded and arrested, whereas a locally made rifle, pistol, ammunition and charms were recovered.
On vehicle theft, the commissioner said police arrested two suspects, Hamza Yushau and Abdullahi Abdullahi, at Modern Panteka whereas they were allegedly attempting to build a novel key for a stolen Hyundai Elantra.
He said the suspects confessed to purchasing the vehicle from one Abdulkadir Yahaya of Zaria, who is at the moment at substantial.
Rabiu assured residents that the command would sustain intelligence-led operations against criminals and called on the community to provide punctual details on suspicious activities.
“There will be no breathing space for criminals who search for to threaten the peace and security of our communities,” he said.
Source: Kaduna: Police arrest 24 suspected kidnappers, recover firearms
