The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris
NPM, mni concerned with the occurrence of cases of Kidnappings in the recent
times on Abuja-Kaduna Highway, has deployed a Joint Police Team comprising
Special Police Force, Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Squad,
Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence Response Team, Special Tactical Squad, the
Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile Force with Headquarters at Rijanah,
Kaduna State.
The Joint Police Team are under specific and definite
mandate to rout out the kidnap for ransom gangs and armed robbery gangs that
have being terrorizing the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the recent times. The operation is to complement and augment
the on-going Joint Police/Military operations on the ground.
Within the first week of the commencement of the
operation Absolute Sanity, 32 suspects were arrested in their hideouts and
the exhibits shown above were recovered from them.
They have made confessional
statements indicating the various criminal roles they played in the commission
of the crime. Most of them have been identified by some of their victims. They
will soon be charged to court on completion of investigation.
Meanwhile the Inspector General of Police has commended
and appreciated the communities and people in the towns and villages along
Abuja –Kaduna highway for their cooperation with the Police personnel deployed
for the operation.
He however, implored commuters, travelers and other road
users to support the Police personnel in the discharge of their
responsibilities and in the implementation of other crime prevention and
control strategies of the Force. The operations will be sustained and is being
replicated in all other Highways and major roads across the country.
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