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Niger State Police Command has arrested 27 suspects during coordinated raids connected transgression hideouts successful Minna, including 10 men who allegedly confessed to travelling from Yobe State to prosecute successful amerciable mining activities.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this successful a connection successful Minna, saying the arrests followed sting operations carried retired by operatives of the Tudun-Wada Division connected July 4 and 5.
According to him, constabulary raided identified blackspots astir Kafintella, Sauka-Kahuta and Building Materials Road, wherever 10 suspects were arrested with unsafe weapons, including a agelong curved crisp sickle, a digger, a instrumentality and a shovel.
“During interrogation, they confessed that they had travel from Yobe State to Minna for amerciable mining activities. The suspects person been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Minna, for further investigation,” Abiodun said.
He added that operatives of ‘A’ Division, Minna, besides conducted overnight raids connected July 6 crossed PZ area, Angwan-Kaje, Saiko, Abdusalam Quarters, Tudun-Natsira and Paida, starring to the apprehension of 17 further suspects.
Among those arrested was a notorious and wanted thug identified arsenic Abdulkarim Mohammed, popularly known arsenic “Na-Kareemu”, who had allegedly been evading apprehension implicit erstwhile transgression activities.
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