Police arrest suspected bandit informants, recover weapons in Sokoto

Police successful Sokoto State person arrested respective individuals suspected of moving with bandits arsenic informants and financiers, and recovered weapons during caller operations.

Speaking astatine a property briefing connected Friday, the Commissioner of Police, Hayatu Hassan Shaffa, gave an update connected information successful the authorities and outlined the command’s caller achievements.

He said that connected April 17, 2026, officers from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit acted connected quality and arrested a suspect, Aminu Mai Roba, from Maikulki Village successful Binji Local Government Area.
The fishy was stopped on the Ruwa-Wuri–Tangaza Road with 4 cows.

Shaffa said: “During interrogation, the fishy confessed to receiving the animals from the Lakurawa violent radical astatine Wariya Village, Tangaza section government.

“His relation was to merchantability the cattle and instrumentality the proceeds to the violent network. The recovered cows person been registered arsenic exhibits, and the lawsuit is presently nether further investigation.”

The constabulary main explained that the briefing was portion of efforts to support the nationalist informed and fortify spot betwixt the polic...