Nasarawa police rescue seven kidnap victims, arrest 35 suspects in anti-crime operations

The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has recorded important breakthroughs successful its ongoing combat against crime, arresting 35 suspects, rescuing 7 kidnapped victims, and recovering 13 firearms successful assorted operations conducted crossed the authorities since January 2026.

Commissioner of Police, Shetima Jauro Mohammed, disclosed this portion briefing the Coordinating Deputy Inspector-General of Police for the North-Central Geo-Political Zone, DIG Isyaku Mohammed, during an inspection sojourn to the Command Headquarters successful Lafia.

The constabulary commissioner described the DIG’s sojourn arsenic some timely and strategic, noting that it offered an accidental to reappraisal the state’s information architecture and person guidance aimed astatine strengthening policing and work delivery.

Mohammed explained that Nasarawa’s geographical determination presents unsocial information concerns owed to its proximity to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and its shared boundaries with Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, Benue and Taraba states.

According to him, the state’s immense forests, hard terrain and extended roadworthy network, portion ben...