The Kaduna State Police Command on Friday announced the arrest of 458 suspects for involvement in various criminal activities across the state.
The suspects were apprehended for alleged involvement in kidnapping, cattle rustling, car snatching, armed robbery and illicit drug dealings.
The renewed clampdown on criminal activities is attributed to new measures adopted by
Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ballah Nasarawa, who was redeployed from Abuja to Kaduna only two weeks ago.
“In prosecuting this important campaign of getting rid of all miscreants in Kaduna State, I requested and got personnel from the counter terrorism unit, the special protection unit, the intelligence response team as well as the forensic and crime data unit, all from the force headquarters in Abuja," said AIG Nasarawa.
The Guardian reports that among the arrested suspects were "eight people, suspected to be behind the kidnap of the three pastors recently released with one dead, three suspects held in connection with the kidnap of Dr. Mansur Ahmed, an executive director with Dangote Group, two in the case of the kidnap of one Pastor Elijah Afolabi, six arrested in Rigasa, one kidnapper in Kafanchan, three kidnappers in Mararaban, Jos and a notorious kidnapper who has been terrorizing Jere Local Government of the state. He remarked that two suspects were also arrested while trying to kidnap one Samuel David at Sabon Tasha in Kaduna, while a car snatcher in Rigasa, and a cattle rustler were also nabbed."
Nasarawa said that 71 cattle and 38 sheep, 5 AK-47 riffles and several rounds of ammunition as well as a sizeable amount of illicit drugs and intoxicants were recovered from the suspects.
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