Juliana Francis
The Katsina Police Command has busted a notorious syndicate of gun runners, kidnappers, bandits, recovered general machine guns and at least 179 anti-aircraft (AA) ammunition.
This achievement was reeled out yesterday by the Katsina State Commissioner of Police (CP), Sanusi Buba.
He explained that the busting of a kidnapping syndicate, arrest of bandits, gun runners and recovery of arms and ammunition, were as results of the commands war against all forms of crimes and criminality in the state.
He further revealed that the achievement wouldn’t have been made if not that he and his men received credible information from concerned members of the state.
According to Buba, he and his men quickly embarked on preliminary investigation, leading to the arrest of 35-year-old Lawan Zayyana, of Muduru village, Mani Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Buba described Zayyana as a notorious bandit and arms and ammunition supplier, who used to supply bandits in forest.
The CP said: “In the course of investigation, the suspect was trailed and arrested alongside his cohorts, Haruna Yusuf, 47, Haruna Adamu, 35 and Auwal Abubakar, Consequently, Haruna Yusuf confessed to being the gang leader as he usually received the supply of arms and ammunition from Niger Republic and hands over to Lawan Zayyana, Haruna Adamu and Auwal Abubakar who will in turn, take the supply to bandits in the forest.”
Buba said that Zayyana confessed to have sold over 10,000 arms and ammunition to bandits in the forest.
Furthermore, Haruna Adamu and Auwal Abubakar confessed to have, on several occasions moved these arms and ammunition to bandits at Gurbi and Dan-Magaji areas in Zamfara State.
Buba said that two General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), one LAR rifle, and 179 Anti-Aircraft (AA) ammunition, the sum of 3,413,500 West African - CFA Franc, were recovered in the suspects’ possession.
The following suspected bandits including two biological sons of Haruna Yusuf, a notorious arms dealer were arrested in his house.
Other suspects are Ibrahim Salisu, 20, son to the arms dealer, Shuaibu Haruna, 18, also son of the arms dealer, Murtala Haruna, 20, nephew of the arms dealer, Ibrahim Dabo, 19, Sam-bo Muhammadu, 22, Jibir Adamu, 20, Sani Ibrahim, 20, Yusufa Muhammadu, 28, Abubakar Muhammadu, 26, Abdullahi Dabo, 28, Murtala Ado, 20, Sani Muhammad, 29, Umar Bello, 28, Basiru Usman, 18, brother to arms supplier-(Lawan Zayyana) and Kamaradini Jafaru 30.
The CP said that seven motorcycles comprising five Kasea and two Royal brands of motorcycles were also recovered in their possession.
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