The Niger State Police Command has arrested eleven suspects over alleged involvement in kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling and possession of locally made firearms. Police Public Relations Officer ASP Wasiu Abiodun who stated this while parading the suspects before Newsmen in Minna, said the command also recovered thirty-six cattle, four sheep and rescued three victims
The Niger State Police Command has arrested eleven suspects over alleged involvement in kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling and possession of locally made firearms.
He explained that in Tafa local government on Daupe Daidai road, the police intercepted and arrested one Nasiru Abdullahi of Gwagwa Abuja with a locally-made revolver rifle wrapped in a sack. An investigation into their cases, he said, revealed that the suspects attacked one Samuel Abiodun, a staff of Lion seal industry, Kaduna road, Suleja while on his way to a Commercial Bank to make a deposit and snatched a sum of five million cash from him.
Abiodun further revealed that a gang of suspected kidnappers invaded Kpada Community in Lapai LGA, and kidnapped three women.
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