Katsina police bust
robbery gang
•Investigative panel endorses management’s
findings
By Ngozi Uwujare
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Forty suspected armed robbers, who the Katsina police command
said had, in the past, given residents of the state hell,
are now in the police net.
Also arrested were hard drug merchants and fake soldiers.
Recovered from the suspects were guns, bullets, 16 knives,
daggers, axe, charms, Indian hemp, among others.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the Katsina State Police
Commissioner, Mr. Danazumi Doma, said the offensive attacks
recently launched on the bandits by the police were responsible
for the array of arrests of criminals in the state.
He also explained that the strategy had helped to bring the
activities of a group of bandits, popularly known in the area
as Yankawraye, under check.
Giving insight into how the suspects were nabbed, Doma said
his men received information that some people were having
weeds, suspected to be Indian hemp in their possession and
swung into action.
It was the operation that led to the arrest of Musa Sumaila
and Suleiman Musa in Mask village, Funtua. Eighteen bags of
Indian hemp were allegedly recovered from them.
Another suspect arrested for alleged drug offence was Buhari
Sule, who police said had 41 wraps of the hard drug in his
possession.
Sumaila and Musa, however, told the police that it was one
Mallam Yahaya who supplied the Indian hemp to them.
The commissioner also told newsmen how policemen, who were
on ‘stop-and-search’ duty arrested Abubakar Lawal,
Lawal Usman and Babangida Usman, who had a locally made pistol,
cutlasses, dane guns, among others, in their possession.
Another suspect, Ibrahim Lawal, was said to have dispossessed
a man of his motorcycle, along Katsina-Batsari road before
nemesis caught up with him.
A locally made pistol, with five rounds of ammunition and
a knife were recovered from him. The police boss used the
occasion to warn politicians against political thuggery. He
said the suspects would be charged to court soon.
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