Kano task force arrests alleged gang sponsor in Port Harcourt

The Kano State Multi-Agency Task Force connected Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking has arrested a 27-year-old man, Ishaq Lawan Ibrahim, popularly known arsenic Malam Keya, implicit alleged sponsorship of convulsive pack clashes successful Dala Local Government Area.

The suspect, a nonmigratory of Yelwa successful Dala, was arrested successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, pursuing an intelligence-led operation. He has been returned to Kano for probe and imaginable prosecution.

The task unit accused him of financing and coordinating pack unit that reportedly claimed lives and near residents surviving successful fear.

According to a connection by the task force, the fishy fled Kano aft information operations intensified successful communities affected by pack clashes, including Jakara, Madigawa, Yalwa, Sanka, Kul Kul, Dogon Nama, Kuka Bulukiya, Dala, Shatsari and Dandalin Turawa.

The connection said operatives tracked him to Port Harcourt and arrested him successful an cognition led by the Head of Operations, CSP Bashir Gwadabe.

Confirming the arrest, the task unit chairman, Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado, warned individuals allegedly financing unit that they would beryllium pursued careless of their location.

“Let maine guarantee you that those who bankroll unit should cognize that nary distance, and nary hiding place, volition support them,” helium said.

“This apprehension is lone the beginning. We volition not remainder until bid is afloat restored,” Rimin Gado added.

The task unit said the fishy remained successful custody and would look prosecution a...