Vigilantes nab 2 bandits in Abuja after raid on Niger forest

Two bandits fleeing from a Niger State forest after a raid on their den have been arrested by vigilantes at Yaba junction in Wako Chiefdom in Kwali Area Council of the FCT. City & Crime had reported that a combined team of vigilantes from Abuja and Niger last Wednesday stormed a bandits’ den in Zago […]

Two bandits fleeing from a Niger State forest after a raid on their den have been arrested by vigilantes at Yaba junction in Wako Chiefdom in Kwali Area Council of the FCT.

City & Crime had reported that a combined team of vigilantes from Abuja and Niger last Wednesday stormed a bandits’ den in Zago forest in Niger State, where they rescued 17 abducted victims after a gun battle.

A member of the vigilante group who was part of the operation but preferred anonymity, confirmed the arrest of the two fleeing bandits to our reporter on Monday.

He said the bandits escaped after the raid on their camp at Zago village by the vigilantes but that two of them were arrested last Friday evening while trying to board a vehicle at Yaba junction on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

He said the two bandits boarded two commercial motorcycles from Lapai in Niger State and alighted at Yaba junction, and that one of the cyclists who suspected them alerted a vigilante.

He further said they both confessed to be bandits and were handed over to  the police in the FCT.

The Etsu Wako, His Royal Highness (HRH) Abdullaziz Usman Ibrahim, confirmed the arrest of the two fleeing bandits by vigilantes in his chifedom through telephone.

The spokesperson of the FCT police command, DSP Adeh Josephine, was yet to reply to a text message sent to her on the arrest.