The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni concerned with the occurrence of cases of Kidnappings in the recent times on Abuja-Kaduna Highway, has deployed a Joint Police Team comprising Special Police Force, Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence Response Team, Special Tactical Squad, the Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile Force with Headquarters at Rijana, Kaduna State.
The Joint Police Team are under specific and definite mandate to rout out the kidnap for ransom gangs and armed robbery gangs that have being terrorizing the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the recent times.
The operation is to complement and augment the on-going Joint Police/Military operations on the ground.
Within the first week of the commencement of the operation Absolute Sanity, the listed suspects below were arrested in their hideouts and the exhibits listed above were recovered from them.
They have made confessional statements indicating the various criminal roles they played in the commission of the crime. Most of them have been identified by some of their victims. They will soon be charged to court on completion of investigation.
Meanwhile the Inspector General of Police has commended and appreciated the communities and people in the towns and villages along Abuja –Kaduna highway for their cooperation with the Police personnel deployed for the operation.
He however, implored commuters, travelers and other road users to support the Police personnel in the discharge of their responsibilities and in the implementation of other crime prevention and control strategies of the Force.
The operations will be sustained and is being replicated in all other Highways and major roads across the country.
1. MOHAMMED MUSA -GIDAN BUSA
2. MUSA HASSAN -RIJANAH
3. MAMUDA ADO -MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
4. SHUABU MUSA -MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
5. SANI ABUBAKAR -AKLIBU VILLAGE
6. SHEHU ALH. ADO -RIJANAH
7. ABUBAKAR BELLO -RIJANAH
8. MOHAMMED GARBA AKILIBU VILLAGE
9. USMAN BELLO -RIJANAH
10. KABIRU AHMADU -RIJANAH
11. USMAN FULANI GAMBO -RIJANAH
12. ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI -RIJANAH
13. YAHAYA USMAN -RIJANAH
14. SULEIMAN LAWWAN -RIJANAH
15. AWAL MADAKI -AZARA
16. YAKUBU MUSA _AZARA
17. ALIYU YAHAYA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
18. AMINU SHUAIBU ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
19. ALHAJI UMARU MOHAMMED BIRNIN GWARI
20. SANI FULANI (AKA JANARA) BIRNIN GWARI
21. AHMADU RUFAI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
22. SHUAIBU MUSA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
23. IBRAHIM ILLO ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
24. ALHJ. UMARU AUTA ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
25. BELLO TUKUR ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
26. MOHAMMED GAMBO ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
27. MOHAMADU ADAMU SIKIRU ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
28. MOHAMMED TUKUR IBRAHIM ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
29. SAIDU MOHAMMED ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
30. ABUBAKAR ABDULLAI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
31. DAN- ABSABE ISAH ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
32. AUWALU ABDULLAHI ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
EXHIBITS:
i. FOUR (4) AK 47 RIFLES
ii. SIX (6) LOCALLY MADE PUMP ACTION GUN
iii. TWO (2) MAGAZINES
