The suspects paraded yesterday
Operatives of the Sokoto Police command have apprehended and
paraded at least 12 suspected cattle rustlers and 3 other notorious
kidnap for ransom kingpins yesterday.
Briefing newsmen at the State Police Command, DSP Cordelia Nwawe
who is the spokesperson of the Command divulged that the arrest was done
in sequence.
According to her, Abdulahi Mohammed, Moh’d Isa and Mohammed Ibrahim
were amonsgt the first to be arrested with 97 animals discovered from
their hideouts.
She listed those recovered animals to include, 35 sheep, 51 goats, 9
rams and 2 cows. Cordelia hinted further that the 3 arrested rustlers
led a team of police to other hideouts where more suspects that later
confessed to have being active members of the gang where arrested. The
Command’s spokesperson stressed that they acted on another tip-off to
arrest 3 suspected kidnappers at Mainona village of Wurnu local
government areas of the state.
Those alleged kidnappers are Bello Mohammed, Amadu Bubs and Sambo
Aliyu. The trio of Bello, Amadu and Sambo were alleged to be the
mastermind of most of the kidnap for ransom in Rabbah, Rara, Achida and
it’s environs of the state.
Another big time drug dealer in the state, Bala Abubakar was
arrested with 5 cartons of different hard drugs in a Mitsubishi canter
truck on his way to a warehouse in the old market area of sokoto
metropolis.