POLICE officers engaged and killed two suspected kidnappers during a gunfight in the Maina-Maji village, Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
20-year-old kidnapper, Abubakar Isah, who was in possession of N8.4 million believed to be ransom money collected from victims, was also apprehended by the police. In addition, they found an SMG rifle with 92 live rounds, an SMG OFN rifle with one empty magazine, a live 7.62mm round, and eight different phone models.
According to the commissioner of police for the state of Bauchi, CP Umar Mamman Sanda, the suspects and other criminals were paraded before the public today.
He stated, “Security concerns in our society have assumed alarming dimensions, ranging from gender-based violence, thuggery, armed robbery, kidnapping, and banditry, among others. Adding that it calls for a review of our modus operandi so as to contain the current security challenges bedevilling the state.
“On 07/09/2022, a patrol team attached to Maina-Maji Divisional Police Headquarters, in collaboration with a vigilante group, acted on credible intelligence and raided a suspected kidnappers’ den. On arrival, the kidnappers opened fire on the Police operatives. While returning fire, two of the kidnappers were neutralized at the spot.”
CP Sanda added that suspects in kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry, and cattle rustling who were terrorizing Alkaleri, Dass, Tafawa Balewa, Bogoro, and Toro LGAs as well as various areas of Plateau State were apprehended on August 23 by a team of detectives assigned to the Command.
He said, “In the same vein, our operatives arrested six suspects and members of a vigilantes group at Sabon-Gida village, Tafawa Balewa LGA, Bauchi, and Guram Wase LGA, Plateau State; namely; Adamu Aliyu (alias Do something), Adamu Abdullahi, Longnan Bali (alias Guguwa), Hassan Muhammed, Yakubu Muhammadu and Umar Abdullahi.”
The police commissioner noted that the suspects, who are accused of criminally conspiring with others while carrying AK-47 rifles, pistols, and other dangerous weapons, carried out a series of kidnappings, armed robberies, banditry, and cattle rustling along Alkaleri, Dass, Tafawa Balewa, Bagoro, and Toro LGAs in Bauchi State, and they also expanded their criminal activities to the nearby towns of Wase, Deng.
Other exhibits found on the suspects, he continued, included one AK-47 rifle with 30 rounds of live ammunition, two Barretta Pistols with 58 rounds of live ammunition.
