71 suspects arrested in FCT, as police clamp down on criminal hideouts

By: Kingsley Omonobi

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested 71 suspects during a coordinated raid connected suspected transgression hideouts and achromatic spots crossed the territory.

The operation, carried retired connected September 8, 2025, simultaneously covered Gwagwalada, Kubwa, Nyanya, Apo, Karmo, Maitama, Mabushi, Dawaki, Galadima, Asokoro, Karu, Jikwoyi, Mpape, Lokogoma, and Utako Divisions.

According to constabulary sources, substances suspected to beryllium Indian hemp and different illicit drugs were recovered during the exercise. The suspects are undergoing screening and interrogation, with those recovered culpable to look prosecution.

The wide arrests travel caller reports of transgression activities successful parts of the FCT and bespeak ongoing efforts by information agencies to code emerging information challenges successful the nation’s capital.

On September 9, operatives from the Byazhin Division rescued a 40-year-old woman, Ms. Mary Moore, who was reported missing successful Keffi, Nasarawa State, and aboriginal recovered successful the Byazhin area. She has been handed implicit to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for aesculapian care.

In different development, detectives successful Gwagwalada are investigating the find of the decomposing assemblage of an unidentified antheral successful the Ibwa 1 country connected September 9. Following consultations, assemblage leaders and constabulary agreed to hide the remains successful enactment with section customs.

Also successful Gwagwalada connected the aforesaid day, constabulary received a study of the abrupt decease of a 24-year-old woman, identified arsenic Ebubechukwu Sunday Kelechi, astatine her fiancé’s residence. Preliminary findings suggested she had been undergoing attraction for malaria, with medications recovered astatine the scene. No disposable injuries were recovered connected her body, and investigations are ongoing.

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