Commissioner of
Police, Bola Longe, while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters
on Monday in Lafia, attributed the feat to the efforts of “Operation Puff
Adder,” an initiative of the Inspector General of Police tasked with curbing
the menace of violent crimes.
According to him,
personnel of the command under the special Operation Puff dder raided the
kidnappers’ hideouts at Mararaban-Udege, Odu hills and Gidan Kwano in Nasarawa
Local Government on May 18 and May 21, where they arrested 23 suspects.
He said that a
similar raid on a hideout at Kenyehu village in Toto Local Government Area of
the state paid off with the arrest of 39 suspects from their alleged “planning
theatre”.
Longe explained
that the two female suspects were discovered to be caterers, allegedly cooking
for the suspects and their victims.
He also said that
19 suspected cultists were arrested from Mararaba, Ado and Masaka axis of Karu
Local Government area of the state and had been charged to court.
Longe added that
the effectiveness of the Operation Puff Adder led to the arrest of the kingpin
of an armed robbery gang that ambushed and killed two mobile police personnel
on patrol in Tunga village, Awe Local Government Area of the state, on April
17, 2018.
He said that the
suspect had fled the state after the alleged attack and had been on Police
wanted list before his arrest upon return lately.
He said that
items recovered from the suspects included 11 firearms, 115 rounds of live
ammunition, two vehicles and one motorcycle.
The Police
Commissioner said that investigation was ongoing to arrest other suspects still
at large, adding that all the suspects would soon be charged to court.
He, however,
called for the support of the people through credible information, noting that
the Police could not handle the issue of security alone.
The News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Nasarawa Police command had, on May 20,
during the inauguration of “Operation Puff Adder”, paraded 14 suspected
kidnappers from the same Nasarawa Local Government of the state.
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