Police Arrest 9 Inter-State Armed Robbery Suspects In Kano

The Kano State Police Command has arrested 9 suspected members of an equipped robbery syndicate believed to beryllium liable for a bid of convulsive robberies crossed Kano and Kaduna States up to Abuja.

Briefing journalists astatine the Command office successful Bompai, Kano, the State’s Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, disclosed that the suspects were arrested pursuing a coordinated intelligence-led cognition which was successful enactment with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, for each commands to intensify efforts against convulsive crimes.

According to him, the arrests followed an equipped robbery incidental that occurred connected October 8, 2025, astatine Unguwar Wambai, Dorayi Babba Quarters, Kano, wherever a pack of robbers attacked a residence astatine astir 2 a.m.

He explained that the criminals carted distant a Toyota Yaris vehicle, a currency totalling N3.7million, mobile phones, and different valuables, aft assaulting the victim’s woman and inflicting superior injuries connected her.

“Following a swift effect from Dorayi Division and the Special Intervention Squad (SIS), 1 fishy was initially apprehended, starring to the apprehension of 8 others successful coordinated raids crossed Kano and Kaduna States,” helium stated

Those arrested include: Abubakar Aminu (22), Aliyu Aliyu (23), Abubakar Usman (22), Sulaiman Sani (20), Yusuf Yusuf (17), Abdulrahman Aliyu (23), Salisu Hussaini (17), Sulaiman Abdullahi (20), and Abdulmutallib Sa’ad (24).

Items recovered from the suspects included 1 double-barrel weapon with 18 unrecorded cartridges, 2 pistols, an robust cutter, 2 cutlasses, 4 knives, 3 torchlights, and a reddish Toyota Corolla utilized successful their operations.

CP Bakori said the suspects confessed to aggregate robberies successful the 2 States and FCT and would beryllium charged to tribunal upon completion of investigations.

While noting that the Command’s “Operation Kukan Kura” inaugural has importantly reduced transgression rates successful Kano State, peculiarly telephone snatching and thuggery, the Police Commissioner commended his officers for their professionalism and bravery adjacent arsenic helium lauded the nationalist for providing captious intelligence to the Command.