Niger: Police arrest four suspects, recover toy guns, ATM cards, stolen vehicle

The Niger State Police Command has arrested 4 suspects successful abstracted operations, recovering 3 integrative pistols, 16 ATM cards and a conveyance allegedly stolen successful Lapai, Lapai section authorities country of the state.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this successful a connection issued on Tuesday.

Abiodun said a surveillance patrol squad attached to the Tudun-Wada Division arrested Zaradeen Sani, 19, of Bosso, and Yakubu Abdullahi, 20, of Maitumbi, astatine astir 11 p.m. connected July 14 on the M.I. Wushishi Estate Junction successful Minna.

He said the suspects were intercepted successful a tricycle, and a hunt led to the betterment of 3 integrative pistols and 16 expired ATM cards belonging to antithetic banks

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According to the police, the suspects claimed the ATM cards were picked from the crushed portion scavenging successful Lagos.

However, Police investigators fishy they had been utilizing the artifact guns to rob unsuspecting residents astir the M.I. Wushishi Estate area.

In a abstracted operation, constabulary took implicit 2 suspected car thieves from the Kano State Police Command aft they allegedly confessed to stealing a Volkswagen conveyance successful Lapai, Niger State.

The suspects, identified arsenic Dauda Saidu, 23, of Dindare colony successful Tofa country of Kaduna State, and Ha...