Police arrest six over alleged hyperlinks to bandits, recuperate 5 weapons

The operations additionally led to the restoration of 5 firearms and uncovered suspected legal networks concerned in supplying bikes to bandits, stealing automobiles and financing terrorism.

The Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Adamu Muazu, disclosed this on Friday whereas parading the suspects in Abuja.

He stated two suspects, Nura Umar and Alhaji Rabiu Aliyu, have been arrested in Kaduna State on August 29, 2026, for allegedly supplying bikes to bandits.

According to him, Aliyu supplied the bikes, whereas Umar personally delivered them to legal hideouts. Police recovered an unregistered Honda CV 125 motorbike from them.

“The outdated man who’s seated there among the many suspects has been into this exercise for fairly a while. During evaluation of his telephones, we discovered that he was involved with many of those bandits.

Muazu additionally introduced the arrest of Abdullahi Abubakar, a suspected armed robber and one-chance operator, on October 12 in Kaduna.

He stated Abubakar, who had beforehand spent 13 years in jail for the same offence, allegedly strangled victims earlier than stealing their belongings.

Investigations reportedly led police to Boniface, an alleged gang chief already serving time at Kaduna Correctional Centre, who was accused of directing legal operations from jail.

“One of the astonishing points of this case is the involvement of Boniface. Boniface is in jail and has been speaking with this syndicate and telling them what to do,” Muazu stated.

Two pistols have been recovered from a location linked to the gang. The police additionally found that stolen automobiles have been allegedly bought by means of contacts in Kano, Kaduna and Niger Republic.

In a separate operation in Jos, Plateau State, police arrested three suspected armed robbers and kidnappers recognized as Benjamin Okafor, Moses Akintuyi and Emmanuel Megarfi on November 2.

Muazu stated they allegedly robbed a sufferer at gunpoint, taking N200,000, an unregistered Toyota Corolla, a laptop computer, three cellphones and three ATM playing cards.

The suspects have been additionally accused of withdrawing N800,000 from the sufferer’s checking account.

Recovered gadgets included three domestically made pistols, one cartridge and the stolen car.

One of the suspects was reportedly a neighbour who initially joined others to sympathise with the sufferer after the theft.

Police stated investigations have been persevering with to determine different accomplices and uncover doable hyperlinks to extra crimes.