The Nigeria Police Force have smashed notorious robbery and kidnap gang terrorising motorists along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and recovered AK-47 riffles, pump action guns and others from the gang.
The gang were paraded in Abuja by CSP Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja on Friday.
Recovered from the gang are: Two AK47 Riffles, three English Pump action guns, one revolver English pistol, one Beretta English pistol, two single barrel gun, 133 AK47 Ammunitions, 50 live cartridges, 20 Beretta, four pairs of suspected fake military uniform, three different suspected fake army ranks of Major, sergeant and staff seargent; KIA Saloon Lift up and Mercedez Benz Saloon.
According to Moshood, the Nigeria Police Force was unrelenting in its efforts to ensure safety and adequate protection of travellers and people in the communities along Abuja – Jere – Kaduna highways, saying that as a result, the operation absolute sanity was strengthened with additional police personnel and needed logistics by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim K. Idris to proactively tackle the gangs of kidnappers, armed robbers and car snatchers on the highways and other major roads nationwide.
He said the Commander of the IGP Special Tactical Squad (STS) and his personnel under the Operation Absolute Sanity stormed and raided some identified kidnappers den, camps, blackspot and criminal hideouts in the forests located in the FCT, Niger and Kaduna States and succe3
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