POLICE ARREST BANDITS' INFORMANT AND LOGISTICS SUPPLIER IN KATSINA
The Katsina State police command has arrested a bandits' informant in the State.
The suspect, Hamisu Sani, 30, who hails from Sabon Garin Motso Motso, Zandam village, Jibia LGA of Katsina States arrested on September 18.
Sani, who specializes in supplying bread to bandits in the forest, was nabbed with some quantity of bread concealed inside a sack while trying to enter into the forest and take it to the criminals.
In a similar incident, the State's Police command also arrested a suspected kidnapper identified as Buhari Haruna.
The suspect, who hails from Kankia LGA in Katsina State, specializes in calling unsuspecting members of the public through phone calls, threatening them to pay ransom or risk been kidnapped.
He was arrested on September 18 after he called a certain Hamisu Saminu, a businessman and demanded for the payment of two million naira (2, 000, 000:00K) ransom or risked himself or any of his relations being kidnapped.
Security operatives nabbed him when he went to collect the ransom money deposited as bait for him in a location he instructed the victim to go and deposited the money
The police also arrested two transformer vandalizers in the State. The suspects, Samaila Abubakar, 18, and Mubarak Salisu, 21, bot jail from Higi village, Bindawa LGA.
They were arrested after they vandalized and carted away armored cable from a transformer valued at about two hundred and fifty thousand naira (250,000.00).
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