Niger Police Drive has arrested ten suspects in reference to, armed theft, thuggery, possession of harmful weapons, cattle rustling from numerous elements of the state.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun in a press release mentioned the suspects had been arrested throughout separate operations carried out by police surveillance groups and operatives hooked up to Tudun-Wada Division and Central Police Division, Minna.
He defined that two suspects, Habibu Isyaku, 20 years, and Musa Yakubu, 18 years, had been intercepted by police on a motorbike round Western Bye-Cross on November 17, 2025.
In keeping with him, a domestically made gun was recovered from them, and so they had been unable to supply a passable account of themselves.
The suspects have been charged to courtroom with felony conspiracy, thuggery, and being in possession of harmful weapons and illicit substances.
Abiodun additionally said that in one other improvement, 5 suspects had been arrested in a sting operation in some recognized black spots round Sayako, Tudun-Natsira, Abdul Salam Qtrs, and Baida on November 14, 2025.
The suspects embrace, Abdullahi Sani, 27years, Mohammed Inuwa, 21years, Abbas Yahaya, 25 years, Abdulrahman Ismail, 29 years, and Mohammed Abubakar, 28 years, had been arrested with suspected hashish, a pointy knife, a protracted noticed blade, and illicit substances.
The PRO additional disclosed that three suspects had been arrested for receiving and promoting suspected rustled/stolen cattle.
They embrace, Naziru Mustapha, 25 years, Husseini Abubakar, 30years, and Kabiru Magaji, 40years, had been arrested in reference to the theft of cows in Ibeto space of Magama LGA.
“Eight cows had been recovered from them, and efforts are ongoing to arrest two other suspects, Bashar Sani and Ibrahim Tasiu, who’re at present at giant”
” The police are persevering with their investigation to determine other receivers and recuperate other rustled cattle, ” he added.
