{"id":64718,"date":"2018-11-26T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64718"},"modified":"2018-11-26T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:28:06","slug":"police-foil-attack-on-zamfara-community-recover-11-ak-47-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64718","title":{"rendered":"Police foil attack on Zamfara community, recover 11 AK 47 rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Zamfara Police Command has foiled an alleged planned attack on a community in Zamfara and recovered 11 assorted ammunition from the suspects.<\/p>\n

The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Belel, who made the disclosure at a news conference in Gusau, the Zamfara capital, said the operatives of the command recovered 7 AK47 riffles and 13 Magazines from the suspects.<\/p>\n

Belel said the police also recovered two locally made guns and two motorcycles from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also recovered seven AK47 riffles, nine Magazines and 100 rounds of live ammunition during the mop up operation of illegal fire arms from unauthorized persons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The CP said the command had on Nov. 17 arrested a gang of criminals, who had allegedly invaded Alhaji Abubukar Mainera\u2019s home in Talata-Mafara town and kidnapped his four- year old son and collected a ransom of N1 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sum of 413,000, land purchase agreement letter valued N170,000, two handsets valued N93,000, shoes and cothes valued at N81,000 were also recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Nov. 14, Police also arrested three suspects along Dansadau-Gobirawa-Kwacha road in Maru local government area over a case of culpable homicide and armed robbery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe the suspects rubbed one Bature Abubakar, killed him and made away with his motorcycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne Motorcycle, three knives, two handsets, two ID cards and assorted charms were recovered ffrom them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said on Nov. 21, four AKA 47 riffles, four empty magazines, one motorcycle and assorted charms were recovered when the command in collaboration with the IGP X squad arrested notorious bandits along Gusau-Keta road in Tsafe local government area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Nov. 23, one Bala Tela was arrested for possession of unlawful fire arms where one locally made gun was recovered from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Nov. 10, and Nov. 25, the command in collaboration with the IGP Special Tactical Squad arrested four suspects who specialized in giving information to armed bandits leading to attack and kidnapping for ransom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The CP said all the suspects were being interrogated at the command after which they would be charged to court.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Zamfara Police Command has foiled an alleged planned attack on a community in Zamfara and recovered 11 assorted ammunition from the suspects. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Belel, who made the disclosure at a news conference in Gusau, the Zamfara capital, said the operatives of the command recovered 7 AK47 riffles and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25550,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,2611,271],"class_list":["post-64718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-bandits","tag-zamfara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64718","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=64718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}