Five alleged bandits have been taken into custody in Kwara State by Nigerian Army troops.
Six AK-47s were discovered with the suspects at a checkpoint along Share town in the state’s Ifelodun Local Government Area on Thursday.
The state governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, the chief press secretary (CPS), made this known on Friday.
He claimed that the suspected bandits’ arrest came a day after six people who appeared to be the kidnappers’ couriers were detained in Babanla town along with a sizable shipment of bread and gasoline in the Ifelodun LGA.
Along the Share axis, five suspected kidnappers were detained today. In a Golf saloon car this afternoon, they concealed six AK-47s under the hood.
The Nigerian Army team was on patrol and intercepted them. According to Ajakaye, the five suspects are being questioned.
Six individuals who are suspected of being the kidnappers’ couriers were detained in Babanla, also in the Ifelodun LGA, the day after their arrests, along with a sizable shipment of bread and gasoline, in the area.
The suspects were charged with being the axis’s kidnapping gang’s couriers.
They were detained on Wednesday while they were hiding during a surveillance operation by government-backed local vigilantes in Babanla.
According to the CPS, “They have been transferred to the police headquarters in Ilorin for further investigation.”
He added that earlier on Tuesday, he reported that many criminals had been reported killed as a result of a coordinated attack by government vigilante forces in Omu Aran-Eruku.
Six motorcycles, numerous assault rifles, and numerous magazines were found hidden in their homes.
Source: Channels TV
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