Three Repentant Bandits On Katsina Government’s Payroll Arrested During Robbery (Pix)

Bandits repenting and integrating with communities in Katsina produce other plans. The plan of these the state authorities make use of is even larger, as per crime.

Among the many penitent souls Gov. Bello Masari has introduced into his cupboard within the amnesty programme for repentant bandits are Abdullahi Mai-Rafi 43, Abbas Haruna alias Dogo-Abbas 34, , and Usman Hassan, (aka Manu) 50.

They had been believed to have been working within the workplace of the particular adviser on safety, with all of the pay and perks connected.

Nonetheless, the police simply found they had been moonlighting.

At opportune time, armed with machetes and golf equipment, they slipped into banditry—cattle rustling, theft, and namedropping.

The trio went to Danmarke forest, Ingawa LGA, with a motorized vehicle – Toyota Camry, ash in color, with registration quantity DE 631 LED—and attacked a herder, one Alhaji Gide Suleiman of Malumafashi LGA whereas grazing his animals, the state police spokesperson Gambo stated.

“Threatened him and his boys that they had been from the workplace of the Particular Adviser on Safety to His Excellency, with a false allegation that their brother, Ine Sa’idu had robbed one Lawal of his herds and that they need to both produce the stated Saidu or carry hundred (100) cows.”

They fought the herder, and succeeded in rustling 20 cows valued at N7.5m. In addition they searched and robbed the herder’s household of N40,000 and 4 GSM handsets.

The penitent bandits got here the second time, trying to stay up the identical household. The police, already concerned, moved in, and rounded them up.

“The gang chief, Abdullahi Mai-Rafi confessed to have conspired with the others and offered all of the cows at Dankama market, Kaita LGA of the state. Two cows and N444,000 had been recovered as displays from them.”