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Zamfara Police Arrest 6-Man Informant, Syndicate

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September 18, 2022

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Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of six man syndicate who specializes in giving informations, supplying arms and ammunition as well as camouflage uniform to the bandits.

Briefing Journalists in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Mohammed Shehu, a Superintendent of Police (SP) on behalf of the Police Commissioner mentioned the names of the suspects as Abubakar Mainasawa, (35) Babangida Mohammed, (30), Jamilu Kawali (34), Lawal Ibrahim (38), Suraju Idris (37) and Amadu Yusuf, (34)

He said the arrested suspects are members of a notorious syndicate of informants who collaborate with Bandits to terrorize peace loving people of Gusau, K/Namoda, Tsafe, Bungudu local government areas and its environment.

The Zamfara State Police Command said the nefarious activities of the syndicate group were to give information to bandits and thereby make it easier for them to attack communities and kidnap people for ransom.

He said it was equally part of their activities to collect millions of Naira to source for ammunition and military camouflage uniforms for the Bandits.

Their recent dirty business was when one of the suspects Abubakar Manasara in his statement to the Police had confessed of collecting the sum of Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N850, 000) from the bandits to source for military camouflage uniforms for them.

“The same suspect further confessed of collecting the sum of Two Million Naira (N2,000,000) from Bandits to supply arms and ammunition for them, even though, two of his accomplices Lawal Ibrahim ‘M’ and Surajo Idris ‘M’ confirmed to the Police that the money given to the suspect was Six Million Naira (N6,000,000) for the arms deal consignment and not N2,000,000 naira.

“The sum of One Million Naira (N1,000,000) was given to same Babangida Soja ‘M’, who in turn gave only Sixty Thousand Naira (N60,000) to Jamilu Lawali ‘M’, (Tailor) for the supply of the ammunition who at the end supplied Ten (10) rounds of AK-47 live ammunition which was handed over to Bandits through Babangida Soja and Abubakar Mainasara ‘M’