Police nab ex-con, 3 others over plans to attack gov’t institutions in FCT

Police nab ex-con, 3 others over plans to attack gov’t institutions in FCT

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested four criminal elements terrorising the capital city.

A statement on Thursday by the command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said the suspects are notorious kidnappers responsible for several killings and kidnappings in the nation’s capital.

According to the statement, the bandits confessed that they were planning to attack some government institutions and estates within the FCT.

SP Adeh identified the criminal elements as Yau Sani, a.k.a. Baba (an ex-convict), Nuhu, a.k.a. Giwa, Kabiru Mohammed, and Yusuf Hassan.

She said they were arrested at their criminal hideout in Sauka, Abuja “living within the general population”.

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The suspects also confessed to killing seven people.

“These gangs have attacked Dakwa, Dawaki, Aco estate, Dupe Village, Zuma Rock, Kuchiko village and some villages in Niger and Kaduna”, she said.

“They also led Police operatives to another hideout in Gauraka Forest, Suleja, Niger State, where they dug out four (4) AK-47 rifles, thirteen (13) AK-47 magazines, one hundred and sixty-two (162) rounds of 7.6 mm live ammunition,” the statement added.

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