Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Police in Katsina, have arrested a notorious suspected kidnapper and rescued fourteen kidnapped victims.
According to spokesman of the Command, SP Gambo Isah, “Today 18/07/2020 at about 01:00hrs, DPO Dutsinma, CSP Muhammad Makama, led “Operation Puff Adder” to Kwantawama village, Dutsinma LGA of Katsina state, based on a report that bandits numbering about forty on motorcycles, armed with AK 47 rifles, attacked the village, kidnapped fourteen women including children and rustled large number of domestic animals.”
According to to Isah, The team chased after the hoodlums into the fringes of Rugu forest and engaged them in a gun duel and succeeded and dislodged the bandits, rescued all the kidnapped fourteen women, thirty cows, sixty sheep and arrested one of the bandits later identified as Amadu Yusuf, M, aged 30yrs of Tudu village, Dutsinma LGA of Katsina state.
Police is currently investigating the incident.