The Kano State Police Command has arrested 132 suspects for alleged kidnapping, armed theft, and illicit drug dealing in two months in numerous components of the state.
The state police commissioner, Hussaini Gumel revealed this on Friday in Kano, saying that the command additionally arrested motorcar, bike and tricycle thieves, human trafficking suspects, and suspected fraudsters, amongst others, through the interval.
Gumel additionally disclosed that the command rescued 4 kidnapped victims, and two human trafficking victims, and recovered gadgets and items through the interval.
The gadgets recovered embrace two AK-47 rifles, one locally-made pump-action rifle, and 4 stay cartridges.
“Now we have arrested 65 suspected thugs (Yandaba), 22 suspected thieves, 25 suspected drug sellers, 11 kidnapping suspects, and 9 suspected unlawful Foreign exchange hawkers from January up to now in numerous components of the state.
He added that from January 1 up to now, all types of main crimes, akin to armed theft, kidnapping, cattle rustling, automotive theft, drug dealings, and thuggery, had considerably lowered in all components of the state.
“The earlier threats of daylight and night time cell phone armed theft are actually a narrative of the previous, with no single report within the final two months.”
Gumel additional acknowledged that the command was in a position to smash and dismantle trans-border syndicates of motorcar thieves with the arrest and restoration of a lot of automobiles.
