Police command arrests gang of kidnappers, cattle rustlers

The Kwara state Police command have arrested a gang of kidnapers and cattle rustlers who went away from Kwara sate with over 200 cows. The  Kwara state commissioner of police, Lawan Ado while parading the suspects before newsmen at the Police Headquaters in Ilorin said they were arrested in Niger state where they had escaped to. […]

The Kwara state Police command have arrested a gang of kidnapers and cattle rustlers who went away from Kwara sate with over 200 cows.

The  Kwara state commissioner of police, Lawan Ado while parading the suspects before newsmen at the Police Headquaters in Ilorin said they were arrested in Niger state where they had escaped to.

Ado explained that the police from the Niger state command were able to arrest the suspects after his command shared with the Mokwa police station in Niger state, an intelligence about the movement of the suspects.

He said that in the process of arresting the suspects, a police corporal, Machi Yusuf who is an operative of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), unfortunately lost his life.

Ado said that the policeman died in an exchange of fire with the kingpin of the kidnap gang, Adamu Abacha.

He said Abacha, after the clash, escaped to the bush and that while the SARS operatives were combing the bush for him, they found his dead body on the ground and also recovered there, his AK 47 riffle he buried in the ground.

The police commissioner said 233 cows were recovered from the gang and that six live ammunitions were retrieved alongside the riffle recovered from their dead boss.

He said six of the gang members who were arrested would be charged to court as soon as investigation is conducted.

The police boss also disclosed that two people among four suspected to have kidnapped a man, Hassan Taiye, in his mosque in Chikanda in Baruten local government area of the state had been arrested.

He said four men two of whom were in Army uniform kidnapped the victim and took him to an unknown destination after injuring his vigilante guard with a gunshot.

Ado further disclosed recovery of 10 motorcycles from a gang of armed robbers specialising in theft of motorcycles in Ilorin.

The police boss who said his men arrested two members of the gang after a pastor in the town reported the theft of his Bajaj motorcycle disclosed that efforts were on to arrest the escaping members of the gang.