By Imam Ibrahim – The Police has paraded 32 suspects in connection with the Kaduna highway kidnappings, even as it said the arrested suspects have confessed to the crime.
Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, in a statement shared by PRNigeria, Monday said, the arrest was the result of the Joint Police Team set up last week by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
“Within the first week of the commencement of the operation Absolute Sanity, the listed suspects below were arrested in their hideouts and the exhibits listed above were recovered from them,” Mr. Moshood, a Chief Superintendent of Police, stated.
“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.
It would be recalled that IGP, concerned with the increasing spate of kidnappings on the Abuja-Kaduna highway, 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 were 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.
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.
- MOHAMMED MUSA -GIDAN BUSA
- MUSA HASSAN -RIJANAH
- MAMUDA ADO -MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
- SHUABU MUSA -MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
- SANI ABUBAKAR -AKLIBU VILLAGE
- SHEHU ALH. ADO -RIJANAH
- ABUBAKAR BELLO -RIJANAH
- MOHAMMED GARBA AKILIBU VILLAGE
- USMAN BELLO -RIJANAH
- KABIRU AHMADU -RIJANAH
- USMAN FULANI GAMBO -RIJANAH
- ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI -RIJANAH
- YAHAYA USMAN -RIJANAH
- SULEIMAN LAWWAN -RIJANAH
- AWAL MADAKI -AZARA
- YAKUBU MUSA _AZARA
- ALIYU YAHAYA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- AMINU SHUAIBU ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- ALHAJI UMARU MOHAMMED BIRNIN GWARI
- SANI FULANI (AKA JANARA) BIRNIN GWARI
- AHMADU RUFAI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- SHUAIBU MUSA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- IBRAHIM ILLO ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- ALHJ. UMARU AUTA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- BELLO TUKUR ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- MOHAMMED GAMBO ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- MOHAMADU ADAMU SIKIRU ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- MOHAMMED TUKUR IBRAHIM ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- SAIDU MOHAMMED ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- ABUBAKAR ABDULLAI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- DAN- ABSABE ISAH ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
- AUWALU ABDULLAHI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
EXHIBITS:
- FOUR (4) AK 47 RIFLES
- SIX (6) LOCALLY MADE PUMP ACTION GUN
- TWO (2) MAGAZINES
CSP Jimoh Moshood
Force Public Relations Officer
Force Headquarters Abuja.
