Over 100 suspected criminals paraded by  police in Kano

On Friday, the Kano State Police Command paraded 100 suspects in the state’s continuing Puff-Adder activities for various supposed crimes.

This it said was in a 20-day effort to rid the state of all types of crime and crime.

The disclosure was rendered by the state police commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, while presenting the suspects in Kano.

He said the suspects have been detained for multiple offences including, among others, kidnapping, armed robbery, cyber crimes, and forgery.

Mr. Iliyasu said the suspects have been arrested in the last 20 days at various occasions and places.

The commissioner said four kidnappers were detained on August 21 on the basis of a complaint of threat to kidnap through text messages to kidnap one of Gordon Dutse Quarters Kano’s Sani Yahaya and his wife.

Mr Iliyasu revealed that 61 (alleged) miscreants (Yandaba) have been detained in connection with thuggery.

He said on August 25, in cooperation with Miyatti Allah, Puff-Adder detained one Sa’idu Abdullahi and four others engaged in armed robbery and abduction in the Falgore forest.

He also observed that Aminu Ibrahim of Kaduna State was detained on August 15 at approximately 1:45 p.m. for carrying 11 bags of dried leaves suspected of being Indian hemp in the company of one Nura Dalhatu.

“On Aug. 22, at about 2:40 a.m police on patrol along Zaria Road arrested one Harrison Ofesi also in possession of motor vehicle and 15 parcels of dried leaves.

On August 16, on the basis of an intelligent report, Mr Iliyasu also said the command detained Hassan Idris and four others for conspiracy, robbery, presumed homicide and stolen property.

“The suspects confessed to have stolen six solar panels and 124 solar batteries and also attacked one Saifullahi Mohammed of Gaida Quarters Kano and robbed him of his tecno phone valued at N50,000 and seven bundles of wrappers.

“Similarly the suspects also stabbed the victim, Mohammed with knife where he was rushed to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital Kano where he was confirmed dead, ” he said.

He added that two suspected forgery and cyber crime (Yahoo Yahoo) boys specializing in hacking accounts of people and ATMs were detained at around 2 p.m. on August 29 while on patrol at Gwammaja Quarters Kano.

He said items retrieved from them included four computer laptops, three printers, some fake Kano Polytechnic result declaration, Hygiene School, and some NECO results.

Other items recovered he said were fake drivers licence, tinted permit, Nigeria army ID card, voters cards, Tecno handset, MTN sim card and Zain sim card.

He said 21 different dangerous weapons such as axes, sticks, cutlasses were also recovered from the suspects in addition to 126 bottles of codeine expectorant, large quantity of Indian hemp, suck and die and rubber solution.

Also recovered were six AK 47 riffles with 110 round lives ammunition and a set of camouflage uniform, three locally made pistols with 15 rounds of locally made ammunition, among others.

The commissioner said investigation was ongoing and as soon as it is completed, the suspects would be charged to court.

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