The Jigawa state police command, announced the arrest of members of a suspected kidnap gang, believed to have murdered two police officers in the state.
Two members of a syndicate that killed two police officers in Jigawa State have been apprehended, the police have said.
The Jigawa state police command, announced the arrest of members of a suspected kidnap gang, believed to have murdered two police officers in the state.
The gang also reportedly kidnapped the son-in-law to a popular businessman, Haruna Maifata and carried out other criminal activities around the north-west axis of the state.
The police informed that the feat was achieved following raids of three criminal hideouts in Dajin Maizuwo, Dan Gwanki and Yandamo villages in the Sule Tankarkar Local Government Area of the state.
The Commissioner of Police (CP), Aliyu Sale Tafida, paraded the suspects at the Headquarters in Dutse on Thursday, saying "the feat was accomplished following intelligence report".
Recall on Sunday 23, 2022, two police officers, a Superintendent Police, Anas Useini and Inspector Sunisi Alhassan were killed while trying to rescue Maifata's son-in-law from the hoodlums. The bandits also set their patrol van ablaze.
The CP paraded a total of 14 suspects comprising 10 males and four females, including a suspect from Kaduna, alongside six children.
Items recovered from the suspects are three AK-47s, nine Magazines, 308 live ammunition of 7.6mm, one General Purpose Machine Gun, (GPMC), N2m cash, Cutlass, six phone sets with nine batteries, 12 sim cards, five SD card memories, as well as one 28-seater Toyota Hiace Bus.
Two of the rifles recovered from the bandits were confirmed by the CP to have been carted away from the two police officers killed at Kwalam village in the Taura local government area on Sunday while responding to a distress call.
Tafida also disclosed that a motorcycle recovered belongs to one Abdu Isa Sajo, a Commander of a local security outfit called Yanbulala, who was also shot and killed by yet-to-be-identified persons in the Kirikasamma local government area on Tuesday.