The Police Command in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said it has raided a kidnappers’ den in Jibi forest bordering the Dei-dei area of Abuja adding that this followed credible intelligence that the bandits were planning a reprisal attack in the Zuba area of the territory.
Penpushing reports that the command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh made this known in a statement explaining that one of the gang members, Nasiru Mohammed popularly called “Danger” was earlier arrested and paraded on March 11,2024
The police spokesperson, a superintendent of police said in the statement that the bandits, fled their hideouts to escape arrest, adding that credible intelligence report showed that one Mallam Danyaboi and his gang members who were colleagues to the arrested Mohammed had planned a reprisal attack in Zuba and its environs.
‘The operatives of the FCT Police Command, in a continued fight against banditry in FCT, stormed a kidnappers’ den in Jibi forest bordering Dei-dei Abuja on March 23, 2024, at about 06:00 AM. On sighting police operatives, the bandits fled from their hideouts to escape arrest’, the statement reads.
‘The crime prevention operation was carried out on the heels of a credible intelligence that one Mallam Danyaboi and Ilu, gang members and colleagues to one Nasiru Mohammed A.K.A. Danger, who was earlier arrested and paraded by the Police Command on March 11, 2024, in connection with series of kidnappings in FCT, had planned a reprisal kidnapping attack in Zuba and its environs for the arrest of their members. Exhibits such as firearms and cows were recovered from the camp,” the statement said.
‘While intensive crime prevention patrols are already in place to forestall any intended kidnapping in the area, the Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, wishes to reassure residents of his commitment to ensuring the safety of all and sundry’.
Penpushing further reports that the statement urged residents to report suspicious activities through the following emergency lines: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, and 08028940883; CRU: 09022222352.
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