Police Arrest 5 Persons In Katsina Suspected Of Supplying Bandits With Petrol

The Katsina State Police command says it has arrested 5 individuals suspected to be supplying bandits with petroleum merchandise, along with a suspected kidnapper within the state.

The police spokesperson within the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a press release issued to newsmen on Tuesday, in Katsina.

“On Sept 18, 2021, primarily based on credible intelligence, the command succeeded in arresting a 32-year-old man from Maradi, Niger Republic, conveying gas in a Passat car.
“One other 28-year-old man, a resident of Magamar Jibia, was additionally arrested conveying gas in his Passat car.

“The command was additionally capable of arrest a 50-year-old man, a resident of Daddara village, in Jibia Native Authorities Space (LGA), additionally suspected to be conveying gas in his Golf III automotive.

“We additionally succeeded in arresting a 57-year-old man suspect, of Kofar Guga Quarters, conveying gas in his car.

“Nemesis caught up with the suspects after they have been all arrested alongside Katsina – Jibia street whereas on their method into the forest,” Isa mentioned.

In response to him, in the middle of the investigation, the suspects confessed to promoting the gas on the fringes of the forest, opposite to the Govt order and different extant legal guidelines of the Federation.

He added that the command had additionally succeeded in arresting a 25-year-old suspect of Anguwan Nakaba village, Sabuwa LGA, believed to be a provider of gas to bandits within the forest.

“The actual fact of the matter was that the suspect was noticed to have been regularly coming to purchase gas at a filling station in Dandume LGA in his motorbike, a Jincheng rubber.

“Consequently, police detectives on surveillance patrol on the mentioned filling station secretly adopted him, which led them into an uncompleted constructing the place he was arrested whereas transferring the gas right into a Jerry can.

“In the midst of the investigation, the suspect confessed to the fee of the offense and additional said that he got here all the way in which from Sabuwa LGA to purchase the gas and take it to the forest,” he mentioned.

Isah additional defined that the Command had equally arrested a 30-year-old man from Sabon Garin MotsoMotso, Zandam village, Jibia LGA, suspected to be a infamous informer who specialised in supplying bread to bandits within the forest.

“After a number of warnings by each neighborhood leaders and safety businesses asking him to cease supplying bread to bandits within the forest, the suspect was subsequently arrested with some amount of bread hid inside a sack whereas attempting to enter the forest.

The suspect additionally confessed to committing the offence, as investigations are ongoing, in keeping with Isah.

In a associated improvement, the police spokesman additionally disclosed that the command had arrested a 22-year-old man from Kankia LGA, a cripple, who specialises in calling folks on telephone and threatening them to pay ransom or threat being kidnapped.

“The suspect was arrested after he referred to as a businessman in Kankia and demanded the fee of N2 million ransom or threat himself or any of his relations being kidnapped.
“In the midst of the investigation, the suspect was arrested when he went to gather the ransom cash deposited as bait for him, at a location he instructed the sufferer to go and drop the cash”.

The investigation remains to be ongoing within the case, following the confession of the suspect to committing the offence, Isah mentioned.