FCT: Police storm bandits hideout, recover dangerous weapons

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command person recovered 2 FN FAL rifles and unrecorded ammunition from bandits successful a caller operation.

A connection issued on Wednesday by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, said the betterment followed an cognition astatine the bandits’ hideout successful Dajin Madam wood located betwixt Plateau and Bauchi states.

The PPRO explained that the cognition was portion of a travel up probe into the apprehension of 4 suspects for supplying arms, ammunition and illicit substances to bandits.

According to her, operatives of the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit conducted a follow-up cognition connected 2nd August, 2026, based connected credible quality provided by 1 of the suspects successful custody, Musbahu Ishaq.

She said the fishy led the operatives to Dajin Madam forest, wherever the transgression syndicate are suing arsenic 1 of its hideouts.

Adeh said further probe established that “Musbahu Ishaq obtained arms and ammunition from 1 Rabiu Hassan and supplied them to 1 Baba Alhaji Sanusi, a suspected bandit kingpin presently astatine ample and believed to beryllium hiding successful a wood successful Katsina State”.

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