SUSPECTS:

S/NO

NAME

AGES

PLACE OF ARREST

1

MOHAMMED MUSA

ADULT

GIDAN BUSA

2

MUSA HASSAN

ADULT

RIJANAH

3

MAMUDA ADO

ADULT

MARARABAN JOS KADUNA

4

SHUABU MUSA

ADULT

MARARABAN JOS KADUNA

5

SANI ABUBAKAR

ADULT

AKLIBU VILLAGE

6

SHEHU ALH. ADO

ADULT

RIJANAH

7

ABUBAKAR BELLO

ADULT

RIJANAH

8

MOHAMMED GARBA

ADULT

AKILIBU VILLAGE

9

USMAN BELLO

ADULT

RIJANAH

10

KABIRU AHMADU

ADULT

RIJANAH

11

USMAN FULANI GAMBO

ADULT

RIJANAH

12

ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI

ADULT

RIJANAH

13

YAHAYA USMAN

ADULT

RIJANAH

14

SULEIMAN LAWWAN

ADULT

RIJANAH

15

AWAL MADAKI

ADULT

AZARA

16

YAKUBU MUSA

ADULT

AZARA

17

ALIYU YAHAYA

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

18

AMINU SHUAIBU

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

19

ALHAJI UMARU MOHAMMED

ADULT

BIRNIN GWARI

20

SANI FULANI (AKA JANARA)

ADULT

BIRNIN GWARI

21

AHMADU RUFAI

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

22

SHUAIBU MUSA

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

23

IBRAHIM ILLO

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

24

ALHJ. UMARU AUTA

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

25

BELLO TUKUR

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

26

MOHAMMED GAMBO

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

27

MOHAMADU ADAMU SIKIRU

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

28

MOHAMMED TUKUR IBRAHIM

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

29

SAIDU MOHAMMED

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

30

ABUBAKAR ABDULLAI

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

31

DAN- ABSABE ISAH

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

32

AUWALU ABDULLAHI

ADULT

ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY

 

EXHIBITS:

  1. FOUR (4) AK 47 RIFLES
  2. SIX (6) LOCALLY MADE PUMP ACTION GUN

iii.          TWO (2) MAGAZINES

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni concerned with the occurrence of cases of Kidnappings in the recent times on Abuja-Kaduna Highway, has deployed a Joint Police Team comprising Special Police Force, Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence Response Team, Special Tactical Squad, the Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile Force with Headquarters at Rijanah, Kaduna State. The Joint Police Team are under specific and definite mandate to rout out the kidnap for ransom gangs and armed robbery gangs that have being terrorizing the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the recent times.  The operation is to complement and augment the on-going Joint Police/Military operations on the ground.

  1.   Within the first week of the commencement of the operation Absolute Sanity, the above mentioned suspects were arrested in their hideouts and the exhibits listed above were recovered from them. They have made confessional statements indicating the various criminal roles they played in the commission of the crime. Most of them have been identified by some of their victims. They will soon be charged to court on completion of investigation.
  2.  Meanwhile the Inspector General of Police has commended and appreciated the communities and people in the towns and villages along Abuja –Kaduna highway for their cooperation with the Police personnel deployed for the operation. He however, implored commuters, travelers and other road users to support the Police personnel in the discharge of their responsibilities and in the implementation of other crime prevention and control strategies of the Force. The operations will be sustained and is being replicated in all other Highways and major roads across the country.

 

 

CSP Jimoh Moshood

Force Public Relations Officer

Force Headquarters

Abuja.