Police recover fake currency from five suspects in Sokoto

The Nigeria Police Force, Sokoto authorities bid said its operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit has arrested 5 suspected counterfeit currency web known arsenic “Sai Malam.”

In a connection by the Police Public Relations Officer successful the state, DSP Ahmad Rufa’i, the Divisional Police Officer of Illela Division has transferred 3 suspects, Muhd Hamidu of Kwanni, Niger Republic, Umar Hassan and Sadik Isah of Illela Local Government Area to the Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.

It said quality led to the apprehension of 2 different suspects:, Buhari Abubakar and Kasimu Muhammad, some of Makera Asada quarters successful Sokoto Metropolis

According to the statement, the bid has successfully recovered counterfeit currency and fetish items believed to beryllium utilized successful the amerciable cognition by the suspects.

In a abstracted cognition connected March 10, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the bid responded to a distress telephone astir suspected members of the outlawed ‘Yan Sakai radical successful Dakalo colony of Dange Shuni Local Government Area.

The group, led by 1 Sani Nabuzuwa, is suspected of being progressive successful cases of culpable homicide and cattle rustling.

“On sighting the police, the suspects opened occurrence but were subdued by the tactical squad and fled into a adjacent forest,” helium said.

Items recovered astatine the country see “a fabrica...