Security personnel have detained four alleged bandits who were terrorising the nation’s capital, according to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command.
The FCT police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said in a statement released on Sunday that the suspects were captured on June 7 as a result of a coordinated operation involving the police, hunters, guards brigade, and Department of State Services (DSS).
According to Adeh, the security forces raided some known kidnapper’s camps in Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest, Kaduna State, bordering the Federal Capital Territory, acting on reliable intelligence. They then pursued and apprehended the four suspects.
Adeh, a superintendent of police, said the suspects are Yahaya Abubakar, 25; Mohammed Mohamed, 32, an ex-convict; Umar Aliyu, 20; and Nura Abdullahi, 32, also an ex-convict.
“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,” Adeh said.
“The coordinated operation, which occasioned a shootout between the bandits and the security operatives, forced them to scamper to safety, and victims were rescued.
“The illegally erected structures by the kidnappers in all the patrolled camps were all decimated.”
The police said victims rescued from the suspects have been reunited with their families and loved ones.
Benneth Igweh, FCT police commissioner, asked residents to be vigilant and report suspicious activities to law enforcement agencies.
