FCT police arrest notorious bandits planning attacks on government institutions and others

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command, have arrested four criminal elements terrorizing the area.

A statement on Thursday by the spokesperson of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, said the suspects are notorious kidnappers responsible for several killings and kidnappings in the nation’s capital.

According to the statement, the criminals suspected of being bandits “have confessed their intentions to attack some government institutions and estates within the FCT.”

Josephine Adeh identified the criminal elements as Yau Sani aka Baba (an ex-convict), Nuhu aka Giwa, Kabiru Mohammed and Yusuf Hassan.

She said they were arrested at their criminal hideout in Sauka, Abuja, “where they were living among the general population”.

The suspects also confessed to being responsible for the murder of seven kidnapping victims in the area.

“These gangs have attacked Dakwa, Dawaki, Aco Estate, Dupe Village, Zuma Rock, Kuchiko Village and some villages in Niger and Kaduna,” she said.

“They also led policemen to another hideout in Gauraka Forest, Suleja, Niger State where they dug out four (4) AK-47 rifles, thirteen (13) AK-47 magazines and one hundred and sixty-two (162) bullets . of 7.6mm live ammunition,” the statement said.