Police Parade Suspected Bandits, Vandals, Others In Niger

The Niger state police command has paraded four suspects with 295 rounds of live ammunition believed to be working for an individual in Mangu area of Plateau state to where local residents have come under frequent attacks.

The police also paraded suspects transporting vandalized Rail Tracks and Slippers.

The police said the ammunition were packed in bags and hidden in a poultry farm in Sabon Wuse, Tafa local council of Niger state.

During interrogation, the prime suspect Nuhu Abdullahi confessed that his elder brother; one Ibrahim Abdullahi in Mangu area of Plateau State, sent a sum of two hundred and ninety-five thousand naira to him to purchase arms and ammunition that will be used in Mangu.

The police also paraded 5 other suspects for vandalism of rail tracks and slippers.

The commissioner of police said the military component at Sarkin-Pawa intercepted, arrested and handed over a truck laden with vandalised rail tracks.

One of the suspects Adekunle Saheed said they were escorted by security operatives to the location where they picked the vandalised items.

The police team in a separate operation also discovered a large quantity of railway tracks and slippers in a residential building in Farin Doki area suspected to have been kept there by vandals waiting to be evacuated.

Other suspects paraded were 3 men arrested for cattle rustling and banditry.

2 notorious thieves and two ex-convicts who met in prison and plotted to steal a car after their release.

The exhibits recovered are :

-295 rounds of live ammunition of AK-47 rifle

-One AK-47 rifle

-One locally-made AK-47 rifle

-One locally-made pistol

-Large quantity of railway tracks

-One knife

-23 wraps of suspected Indian hemp and charms