Benue: Police arrest suspected kidnappers, robbers, recover AK-47 rifles, ammunition

The Benue State Police Command has arrested 20 suspects implicit alleged engagement successful kidnapping, equipped banditry, robbery and different transgression activities crossed the state.

The suspects were paraded astatine the bid office successful Makurdi by the Commissioner of Police, Cletus Nwadiogbu, who disclosed that the arrests followed a bid of operations conducted by constabulary unit successful antithetic parts of Benue.

Among the items recovered during the operations were 3 AK-47 rifles, 33 rounds of ammunition, 2 motorcycles, a Toyota Corolla car, locally made firearms and suspected transgression charms.

Nwadiogbu said constabulary operatives recorded important occurrence during an cognition successful Logo Local Government Area, wherever 3 equipped suspects were neutralised.

He further disclosed that different equipped fishy was neutralised connected August 26 astir the Ayilamo axis.

According to the commissioner, the fishy was allegedly portion of a radical of equipped bandits terrorising farmers and destroying cultivation nutrient successful the area.

The constabulary main besides revealed that officers disrupted an...