Police Nabs 10-Man Gang Operating In Abuja, Nasarawa, Recover Police, Civil Defence ID Cards, Weapons

At least 10 members of a criminal gang believed to be terrorising the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and Nasarawa State, have been arrested.

The arrest was made by the operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department.

The FCT Police Commissioner, Sadiq Abubakar while parading the suspects, noted that they were arrested at a hotel in the Masaka Area of Nasarawa State, a few kilometres from the FCT.

Five AK-47 rifles, four G-3 Rifles, one hundred and twenty-two live ammunitions of 7.62MM, one locally made pistol without ammunition, three ballistic vests, six AK47 empty magazines and seven G-3 empty magazines, were part of items recovered from the gang.

Other items include charms of various degrees, one Police Sergeant warrant card, one vigilante ID card, one Civil Defence I.D card, one Toyota Camry 2000 model, golden colour, Reg No. GGE 702 CH, one Gold-3 wagon green colour, reg. no KWL 22 GQ x, Two Generators, and One Filing Machine.

The police also paraded four suspects who were arrested for armed robbery in the Maitama, Garki, Wuse and Central areas of the FCT.

The suspects allegedly robbed Point-of-Sales operators and unsuspecting residents in possession of money.

Three locally made pistols and fourteen (14) rounds of live ammunition, one English Pistol, two television sets and pieces of jewellery as well as twenty mobile phones have been recovered from the suspects.

The FCT Police command’s anti-kidnapping section during a clearance operation also discovered a kidnapper’s den on the outskirts of the FCT.

Two suspects were arrested and in the course of interrogation. They confessed to having supplied ammunition to armed robbers and bandits.

Also, 900 cartridges of live ammunition were discovered while several other items suspected to belong to victims of kidnapping incidents were also discovered.