Police Says 139 Suspects Arrested, 154 Kidnapped Victims Rescued In 2 Weeks

The current launch of the Particular Intervention Squad (SIS) within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the Inspector-Common of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, NPM, has additional bolstered the safety structure of the FCT resulting in the arrest of 139 suspects, restoration of three GPR Chargers, 2 AK-47 rifles, 1 Kind-06, 4 regionally fabricated weapons, 1 Berretta pistol, 2 Makarov pistols, 4 regionally fabricated pump motion weapons, 504 items of AK-47 ammunition, 100 items of AA ammunition, in addition to the rescue of 154 kidnapped victims unharmed.

Outstanding among the many current successes recorded is the interception of a gaggle of individuals alongside the Abuja-Kaduna expressway who had been main suppliers of arms and ammunition to bandits working in Niger, Zamfara, and Kaduna States. In a more moderen occasion, within the early hours of Friday twenty sixth January, 2024, males of the IGP-SIS engaged some armed bandits inside the FCT-Kaduna axis in a fierce gun battle and neutralised 3 of them together with their gang chief, one Mai-Gemu (aka Gadoro). It’s crystal clear that with this operation, the gang and its camp have been destroyed.

The IGP-SIS operatives on the twenty first of January 2024 arrested 2 main gun-running kingpins who had been supplying regionally fabricated arms and varied sorts of ammunition to a number of assailants working within the North-Central area of the nation. The squad additionally arrested 2 kidnappers within the Jikwoyi space of the FCT and recovered a number of arms and ammunition from them after overwhelming the gang in a gun battle which additionally led to the rescue of their kidnapped sufferer.

The Inspector-Common of Police, whereas reiterating that the SIS will probably be launched past the FCT to different states throughout the nation for efficient safety administration within the nation, has ordered the tactical deployment of a number of operatives of the IGP-SIS to areas inside the FCT nonetheless grappling with safety breaches to fight each type of criminality that may floor.