Kaduna police neutralise kidnappers, arrest 19 suspects, recover arms, stolen items

The Kaduna State Police Command connected Tuesday said it had neutralised notorious kidnappers, arrested 16 suspected kidnappers and 3 suspected gunrunners, and recovered 190 stolen star inverters valued astatine N69 cardinal during a bid of operations carried retired crossed the authorities successful the past 2 weeks.

The bid besides recovered 10 lithium batteries worthy astir N9 million, 10 firearms of antithetic calibres, 170 counterfeit US dollar notes, 83 packs of hard drugs, 32 stolen mobile phones, 2 plasma tv sets, a stolen Toyota Sienna conveyance and much than 400 rustled cattle wrong the play nether review.

Addressing journalists astatine the Command Headquarters successful Kaduna, the authorities Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Muhammad, said the operations underscored the command’s resoluteness to dismantle transgression networks threatening the bid and information of the state.

Muhammad said, “Within the 2 weeks nether review, the Kaduna State Police Command neutralised notorious kidnappers, arrested 16 suspected kidnappers, six suspects recovered successful possession of 170 pieces of counterfeit dollar notes, 3 suspected gunrunners, recovered 10 firearms of antithetic calibres, 190 star inverters worthy N69 million, 1 stolen vehicle, 83 packs of hard drugs, 32 stolen phones, 2 plasma televisions and 410 cattle during assorted operations.”

The commission...