{"id":398091,"date":"2021-09-28T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=398091"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:16:41","slug":"bandits-medical-officer-notorious-suspect-arrested-in-katsina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=398091","title":{"rendered":"Bandits&#8217; medical officer, notorious suspect arrested in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A health worker has been arrested in the Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State for providing drugs and treatment to bandits in the area.<br \/>\nAccording to 34-year-old Murtala Umar, who operates a patent medicine store at Tashar Yar Alewa in Danmusa LGA, he has been involved with the hoodlums for quite some time, supplying drugs and treating them whenever they sustained gunshot wounds.<br \/>\nThe spokesman, Katsina State Police Command, SP. Isah Gambo, paraded the suspect at the state police headquarters on Monday.<br \/>\nHe said while being cross-examined, the suspect confessed to aiding the bandits by providing health services to them.<br \/>\n\u201cI studied at the College of Health and Technology in Kankia and I manage a chemist at Tashar Yar Alewa. The bandits from time to time come to my shop carrying guns to seek my help concerning the health of their members and they pay me in return.<br \/>\n\u201cI used to oblige them for fear of being attacked but I am regretting my actions now,\u201d Murtala said<br \/>\nSimilarly, the police command paraded one Ibrahim Sama\u2019ila also known as \u2018Yellow.\u2019<br \/>\nThe suspect confessed to being a criminal, saying he was destined to end up being arrested.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m a confirmed bandit. There is no use denying the fact. I have been involved in kidnapping, cow rustling, stealing and other crimes. So, It is not an allegation. That is how Allah destined it to be for me,\u201d Yellow confessed.<br \/>\nBandits in the state have had a hard time going about their nefarious activities after the police and other security operatives increased surveillance, leading to the arrest of many.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A health worker has been arrested in the Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State for providing drugs and treatment to bandits in the area. According to 34-year-old Murtala Umar, who operates a patent medicine store at Tashar Yar Alewa in Danmusa LGA, he has been involved with the hoodlums for quite some time, supplying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[9869,320],"class_list":["post-398091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-banditry","tag-katsina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/398092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}