BREAKING: Standing Ovation For IGP, Ibrahim Idris, As Police Special Forces Slaughter 104 Notorious Bandits, Makes Powerful Recovery
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The Police Joint Intervention Force, on Friday, killed 104 bandits, destroyed 50 bandits hideouts in 3 camps, and recovered over 500 cattle and 79 sheep, in Zamfara State.
The Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Ag. DCP, Jimoh Moshood, made this known in a Press statement made available to Post-Nigeria.
Jimoh added that the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has deployed DIG Operations, who had already arrived Zamfara State, with hundreds Special Forces, Personnel, counter-terrorism unit, 3 surveillance patrol Helicopters, to Zamfara State, to coordinate the operation for complete rout-out armed bandits from the State.
The statement reads in full:
The Police Joint Operation Team at about 1600Hrs, 29th November, 2018, repelled ambush attacks from Armed Bandits at Mahanga Forest in Birnin Mogaji LGA of Zamfara State and in the process killed One Hundred and Four (104) Bandits, destroyed over Fifty (50) bandits hideouts in Three (3) Camps, recovered over Five Hundred (500) Cattle and Seventy Nine (79) Sheep from the Bandits, but unfortunately loss a Policeman and Twelve (12) Policemen wounded during the attacks.The Police Team has restored normalcy and peace in the affected areas.
The Inspector-General of Police on 9th November, 2018, deployed Police Joint Intervention Team of about One Thousand (1000) Police personnel comprising the Seven (7) Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Police Anti-Bomb (EOD) Squad, and conventional Policemen to Zamfara State to rout-out, arrest and prosecute Armed Bandits, Vicious Kidnap for Ransom and Cattle Rustling Gangs operating in some parts of the State.
The Team have recorded significant progress in the arrest of more than Eighty-Five (85) suspects, recovered Twenty Seven (27) AK47 Rifles and Fifty-Two (52) locally fabricated rifles and other dangerous weapons, Two Hundred and Sixty-Nine (269) Cattle, One Hundred and Nine (109) Sheep already handed over to their owners.
Consequent on the ambush attacks on the Police Joint Team which were successfully repelled by the Police Team, the Inspector General of Police yesterday, 29th November, 2018 deployed DIG Department of Operations to Zamfara State to be the overall commander of the Police Joint Intervention Force and add new impetus to the Operations. The DIG has already arrived in Zamfara State overnight with Hundreds of Police Special Forces Personnel, Counter Terrorism Units (CTU), additional Police Mobile Force (PMF), Federal SARS Personnel, Three (3) Surveillance Patrol Helicopters and crew members to Zamfara State to coordinate the operation to completely rout-out all Armed Bandits from Zamfara and other contiguous States.
The DIG, Department of Operation and the Police Joint Team have been mandated to also coordinate the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State and personnel of the Command to sustain and restore lasting peace throughout Zamfara State.
Parade of vicious Armed Bandits arrested recently by the Police Intervention Force in connection with armed bandits attacks on villages, cattle rustling, kidnappings and killings of innocent people in Zamfara and Sokoto States.
SUSPECTS
i. ABDULRA’UF YUSUF ‘M’ 45YRS – Gang Leader, a Libya trained Gorilla Fighter
ii. BASHIRU AMINU ‘M’ 30YRS – BUYS AND SUPPLY FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION TO ARMED BANDITS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
iii. AHMADU BUBA ‘M’ 27YRS
iv. MOHAMED BELLO ‘M’ 35YRS
v. MOHAMMED SANI ‘m’ 25yrs
vi. BELLO LAWAL ‘m’ 59yrs
vii. ALIYU SAIDU ‘m’ 33yrs
viii. MUSA ADAMU ‘m’ 35yrs
ix. MOHAMMED TUKUR ‘m’ 26yrs
x. ABUBAKAR BARDE ‘m’ 24yrs
xi. SANI ALI ‘m’ 22yrs
xii. SHEHU UMAR ‘m’ 30yrs
xiii. IBRAHIM MUHAMMAD ‘m’ 31yrs
xiv. USMAN UMAR ‘m’ 18yrs
xv. YAHAYA HASSAN ‘m’ 36yrs
xvi. SULE DANBULE ‘m’ 42yrs
EXHIBITS
i. SEVEN (7) AK47 RIFLES
ii. ONE (1) DANE GUN
iii. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN (197) AMMUNITION
iv. NINE (9) MAGAZINES
v. THIRTY SIX (36) SWORDS
vi. EIGHT (8) SUSPECTED FAKE MILITARY CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS
vii. HARD DRUGS
viii. CHARMS
The suspects have confessed to various criminal roles they played in the commission of the crime. They will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.
Members of the public with any information or in distress in any part of Zamfara State should call the following Police Joint Intervention Control Centre through the following numbers 08037025670, 08033210966, 08033312261, 08123829666, 09053872244, 07082351758, 08091914752.
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