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Police Arrest Killers Of Hon. Musa Mante, CSP Garkuwa, 17 Others For Homicide, Kidnapping, Gunrunning

……27 firearms, 633 live rounds of ammunition, and 4 cutlasses were recovered.

With the arrest of some notorious suspects involved in a criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, and kidnapping in June 2022, the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) successfully brought to a close a case of murder that appeared unsolved.

According to a press release signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, mnipr, mipra, he said the arrest followed a charge on the tactical and operational squads by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, on the need to ensure cases are investigated to a justifiable and reasonable conclusion.

The suspects, Hashimu Galadima (aka Kan-Wuka) aged 48, Abdulwahab Alhassan (aka Emeka) aged 31, Abdulwahab Ahmed (aka Dan-Mama) aged 35, and Alh. Modu Saleh, all of Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State, were arrested following credible intelligence. The suspects, according to investigations, are members of a syndicate actively involved in kidnapping and robbery operations within Bauchi state and its environs.

They confessed to the murder of one Hon. Musa Mante, a then serving member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly from Dass LGA in August 2020, and the kidnap of his two wives and 1-year-old daughter. They similarly confessed to the murder of one Mallam Dahiru Suleiman, and a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Garkuwa, who they claimed was a bane to their free operation in the area.

Similarly, 11 suspects who confessed to being members of an unlawful society, specifically the Black Axe Confraternity (aka Aiye), were arrested in Ekpoma, Edo State, following reports on their nefarious activities within the area. The suspects—22-year-old Okosun Pascal, 24 years old, Michael Ehineboh, 22 years Aneto Israel, 23-year-old Destiny Uhomogiwan, 20-year-old Bello Sunday, 27-year-old Eramoh Akhere,  22 years old, Osagie Adamson, 24 years Okoruwa Christian, Edoghogho Wellington (all 9 from Esan LGA of Edo State), 20-year-old Momoh Kingsley from Estako West LGA of Edo State, and 24-year-old Chukwu Chukwuemeka from Nkanu West LGA of Enugu State, are all university undergraduates.

The exhibits recovered from the suspects are 2 AK-47 rifles, 3 pump-action guns, 1 locally made pistol, 2 AK47 magazines, 22 live rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, 17 rounds of 5.56mm K2 ammunition, and 3 live cartridges.

Operatives of the FIB-IRT equally apprehended the trio of Murtala Ibrahim, aged 37, Suleiman Rabiu, aged 28, and Surajo Sani (aka Mandula), aged 39, for kidnapping and providing information to other notorious kidnapping gangs on likely victims of their crime. The suspects who operate within Yankwani and Kurami Towns in Bakori LGA of Katsina State carried out the kidnap of a man, his wife and two children, from whom they obtained a ransom of 30 million Naira.

Abdulrazak Isah, 27, of Ondo State, was arrested at Tafa LGA in Kaduna State for stealing an iPad and a computer monitor from a hotel in Sabon Wuse, Niger State. He was convicted of life imprisonment for murder in 2013 and had spent 10 years before he escaped from the Kuje Correctional Centre. The suspect thereafter sold the monitor for the sum of N5,000 and the iPad for the sum of N10,000, before his arrest.

The FIB-IRT recovered a total of 27 firearms, including 10 AK rifles, 1 G3 rifle, 8 pump action guns, 3 locally made pistols, 3 English double-barreled guns, 633 rounds of live ammunition of different calibres, 8 expended cartridges, and one cutlass from the suspects in the course of investigations.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has assured well-meaning members of society who are stakeholders in security of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to ensure that all criminal suspects are dealt the full blow of the law upon arrest.

The police spokesperson further said that all the suspects will be arraigned in court upon the completion of investigations. 

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