Police arrest suspected drug baron, foil bandit attack in Sokoto

Sokoto State Police Command has arrested a suspected cause trader and recovered a ample quantity of suspected hard drugs during an cognition successful the state.

The Command besides foiled a bandit onslaught and recovered rustled livestock successful abstracted information operations.

In a connection issued on Monday, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Rufai, said the cause fishy was arrested connected May 27 during a stop-and-search cognition on the Kebbi-Sokoto Road by operatives attached to the Bado Division.

According to the statement, the suspect, identified arsenic Ummaru Abubakar Gugare, was intercepted portion riding an unregistered motorcycle alongside different fishy who escaped during the operation.

Police said a hunt conducted connected the suspects led to the betterment of a sack containing substances suspected to beryllium Indian hemp, arsenic good arsenic quantities of Axzol, Benthexol and D5 tablets classified arsenic controlled drugs.

The recovered exhibits were taken into constabulary custody, portion efforts are ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspect.

In a abstracted cognition connected May 30, operatives of the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit foiled a bandit onslaught connected Zabori, Tambar...