In a significant development, the Karasuwa Divisional Police Station in Yobe State has successfully apprehended two individuals on suspicion of aiding and abetting bandits by supplying them with firearms and ammunition. The apprehended suspects were found in possession of a rocket launcher.
This significant development was communicated through an official statement released by DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Command.
Identified as Hassan Abubakar, aged 35, and Abubakar Shehu, aged 32, both hailing from Maradun, Zamfara State, these two individuals are currently under investigation.
“The first suspect, Hassan Abubakar, was arrested while driving an 18-seater bus in Karasuwa on a mission to collect RPMG. He was intercepted after collecting the mortar.
“The first suspect confessed that the second suspect, Abubakar Shehu, was a bandits’ courier in Zamfara State and was trailed and arrested in Maradun by Police Detectives from Yobe state command, ” the PPRO said.
He added that the suspects are allegedly supplying firearms to bandits in Zamfara, Kano, Niger, Zaria, and Yobe states among others.
DSP Abdulkarim further disclosed that, investigation is ongoing as the suspects are fully cooperating.
“Commissioner of Police Garba Ahmad has pledged to sustain the tempo thereby encouraging officers and men of the Command to do more,” he said.
