IGP Special Force Arrest Suspected Terrorists In Kaduna

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris on the 2^nd of May, 2018 paid an operational visit to Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State to assess the security situation as a result of recent killings of innocent people in the area.

     The IGP during the visit approved the creation of One (1) Police Area Command and Two (2) new Divisional Headquarters. He also ordered the immediate deployment of additional Two Hundred (200) Police Personnel and Ten (10) patrol vehicles to beef-up security in Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna State to Zamfara to flush out armed bandits in the area.

   The IGP consequently deployed Joint Police Special Team comprising the IGP Monitoring Unit, IGP Special Tactical Squad, The Police Special Forces and the Personnel of Kaduna State Police Command under the Supervision of Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State to embark on the operation to rout out all the armed bandits and militias responsible for the senseless killings of innocent villagers in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State and other towns and villages in Zamfara State.

   This operation which is still ongoing has been yielding positive results  and culminated in the arrest of the above mention vicious armed bandits and militias terrorizing the areas from Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State to other villages and towns in Zamfara State.

     1^st Gang

i.             Mohammed Rabiu  (Gang Leader) -29Yrs

ii.           Ardo Aliyu (Principal Suspect) –      45Yrs

iii.         Four (4) members of the gang were killed by the Police Joint Team in a shootout before the gang leader was arrested.

This gang led by Mohammed Rabiu was arrested after Four (4) members of the gang were killed by the Police Joint Team in a shootout in the forest at Bawan Daji, Anka LGA in Zamfara State. He confessed to have been responsible for the killing of Forty Six (46) people during the burial of three (3) people that his gang killed earlier in Bawan Daji village in Zamfara State.

Seven (7) AK47 Rifles were recovered from his gang. He will be charged to court on completion of investigation.

2^nd Gang

i.               Abdullahi Abubakar  -35Yrs

ii.                 Halidu Musa  -34Yrs

iii.               Mohammed Ruwa  -30Yrs

iv.               Mohammed Sani  -30Yrs

v.                 Dahiru Yahaya  -38Yrs

vi.               Mohammed Musa  -30Yrs

vii.              Samaila Umar -39Yrs

viii.            Inusa Magauri   -50Yrs

ix.               Ibrahim Magaji  -29Yrs

x.                 Lawal Dalha    -30Yrs

Dealers in Prohibited firearms and ammunition. Selling arms and ammunition to the armed bandits and militia gangs operating in Birnin Gwari to Zamfara State. They admitted and confessed to the Police investigation team to have sold over Five (5) AK47 rifles to the armed bandits killing innocent people in the villages in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State to Zamfara State. Twenty (20) locally made AK47 rifles were recovered from them

3^rd Gang –

i.             Ibrahim Musa a.k.a Zage  -28Yrs  – Gang Leader

ii.           Five (5) members of the gang were killed by the Police Joint Team in a shootout before the gang leader was arrested.

This Gang led by Ibrahim Musa a.k.a Zage has been on the wanted list of the Police in Zamfara, Niger, Kogi and FCT for several kidnappings, armed robbery and Rape of their victims for some time now. He recently kidnapped a business man and collected ransom of Ten Million Naira

(N10,000,000) after robbing the same victim of seven million naira (N7,000,000) from the victim’s car

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