POLICE NAB SUSPECTED BANDITS INFORMANT,ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS CONFISCATED
Operatives of Zamfara State Police Command has arrested ten suspects for banditry related cases, repelled attacks in Zurmi and Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The suspected bandits’ informants and collaborators were arrested at various locations in the state.
The operatives on December 5, 2022, while on a confidence building patrol along Zurmi and Shinkafi LGAs received a distress call about bandits' plan to attack some villages of the two LGAs.
The Police operatives mobilized to the locations and engaged the bandits in a serious gun battle that lasted for hours,the bandits were repelled by the superior fire power of the Police operatives, forcing them to retreat back to the forest with possible gunshot wounds. Two AK 47 Rifles and 104 rounds of live ammunition belonging to the bandits were confiscated from them.
Similarly,the operatives arrested another two suspected bandit collaborators that specialised in supplying hard drugs and Indian hemp. The suspects; Murtala Dahiru (male)of Galadi village in Shinkafi LGA and Sani Mohammed (male) of Talata Mafara LGA,large quantity of leaf suspected to be Indian hemp were recovered from them.
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