Police on Monday paraded seven members
of a vicious kidnap for ransom gang
responsible for severe kidnapping, armed
robberies and other Criminal activities on
the Abuja/Kaduna highway
Parading the suspects at Katare, Kaduna
State, the Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh
Moshood said the suspects were arrested by
police personnel attached to ‘Operation
Absolute Sanity’ for kidnap for ransom and
other violent crimes in Abuja-Kaduna
Highway
The suspects and place of arrest are:
1: MOHAMMED MUSA
GIDAN BUSA
2: MUSA HASSAN
RIJANAH
3: MAMUDA ADO
MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
4: HUABU MUSA
MARARABAN JOS KADUNA
5: SANI ABUBAKAR
AKLIBU VILLAGE
6: SHEHU ALH. ADO
RIJANAH
7: ABUBAKAR BELLO
RIJANAH
8: MOHAMMED GARBA
AKILIBU VILLAGE
9: USMAN BELLO
RIJANAH
10: KABIRU AHMADU
RIJANAH
11: USMAN FULANI GAMBO
RIJANAH
12: ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI
RIJANAH
13: YAHAYA USMAN
RIJANAH
14: SULEIMAN LAWWAN
RIJANAH
15: AWAL MADAKI
AZARA
16: YAKUBU MUSA
AZARA
17: ALIYU YAHAYA
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
18: AMINU SHUAIBU
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
19: ALHAJI UMARU MOHAMMED
BIRNIN GWARI
20: SANI FULANI (AKA JANARA)
BIRNIN GWARI
21: AHMADU RUFAI
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
22: SHUAIBU MUSA
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
23: IBRAHIM ILLO
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
24: ALHJ. UMARU AUTA
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
25: BELLO TUKUR
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
26: MOHAMMED GAMBO
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
27: MOHAMADU ADAMU SIKIRU
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
28: MOHAMMED TUKUR IBRAHIM
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
29: SAIDU MOHAMMED
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
30: ABUBAKAR ABDULLAI
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
31: DAN- ABSABE ISAH
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
32: AUWALU ABDULLAHI
ABUJA – KADUNA HIGHWAY
Exhibits recovered from them includes four
AK 47 RiflesI, six locally made pump action
gun and two magazines.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim
K. Idris concerned with the occurrence of
cases of Kidnappings in the recent times on
Abuja-Kaduna Highway, has deployed a Joint
Police Team comprising Special Police Force,
Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism
Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence
Response Team, Special Tactical Squad, the
Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile
Force with Headquarters at Rijanah, Kaduna
State. The Joint Police Team are under
specific and definite mandate to rout out
the kidnap for ransom gangs and armed
robbery gangs that have being terrorizing
the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the recent
times. The operation is to complement and
augment the on-going Joint Police/Military
operations on the ground.
Within the first week of the commencement
of the operation Absolute Sanity, the above
mentioned suspects were arrested in their
hideouts and the exhibits listed above were
recovered from them. They have made
confessional statements indicating the
various criminal roles they played in the
commission of the crime. Most of them have
been identified by some of their victims.
They will soon be charged to court on
completion of investigation.
Meanwhile the Inspector General of Police
has commended and appreciated the
communities and people in the towns and
villages along Abuja –Kaduna highway for
their cooperation with the Police personnel
deployed for the operation. He however,
implored commuters, travelers and other
road users to support the Police personnel
in the discharge of their responsibilities and
in the implementation of other crime
prevention and control strategies of the
Force. The operations will be sustained and
is being replicated in all other Highways and
major roads across the country.
