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From Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, working alongside the Special Forces of Guards Brigade and Department of State Services (DSS), has discovered and destroyed some identified terrorists and bandits hideouts in the FCT and arrested four terrorists.
The FCT Police Command Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, who made the disclosure, said the destroyed hideouts were located at Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest, Kaduna State, bordering the FCT.
Adeh said some kidnaped hostages were rescued during the operations and reunited with their families, while the security agencies have intensified coordinated operations in suspected bandits’ routes and camps within and outside the FCT.
Adeh, in a statement, said: “The operatives of the FCT Police Command, in synergy with the special forces of guards brigade and DSS hunters, in a continued effort against criminality in FCT, on May 7, 2024, at about 10am, acting on credible intelligence, stormed some identified kidnappers’ camps, at Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest, Kaduna State, bordering FCT, trailed and arrested four suspects: Yahaya Abubakar, 25 ‘m’ of Mpape; Mohammed Mohamed 32 ‘m’ of Zuba (an ex-convict); Umar Aliyu 20 and Nura Abdullahi, 32, also an ex-convict, at Kubwa and Zuba hills, respectively.
The suspects freely confessed to being members of a notorious bandit syndicate, with the name, ‘Mai One Million’, responsible for a series of kidnappings and other heinous crimes in FCT and its environs.
The coordinated operation, occasioned a shootout between the bandits and the security operatives, forcing them to scamper to safety and victims rescued. The illegally erected structures by the kidnappers in all the patrolled camps were all decimated.
While the rescued victims have since been reunited with their families and loved ones, the commissioner of police, FCT, Benneth C. Igweh, lauded the effort of the security operatives in the fight against criminality in the nation’s capital.
He further reiterated the command’s unflinching commitment to ensuring the security and safety of the residents of FCT. He, therefore, urges the residents to be vigilant and take advantage of the police emergency lines in reporting suspicious activities through: 08032003913, 08028940883, 08061581938, and 07057337653 PCB: 09022222352, CRU: 08107314192.
