Police Bust Suspected Armed Robbery Syndicate In Abuja

Police operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command person uncovered suspects who operated a syndicate of equipped robbery and execution terrorising Abuja.

The operatives, successful a bid of well-coordinated operations carried retired betwixt September 3 and 19, 2025, successfully apprehended members of a notorious equipped robbery syndicate liable for aggregate convulsive crimes wrong the FCT and its environs.

The suspects arrested astatine Kagini, FCT, and Madalla, Niger State, include: Ibrahim Shaibu a.k.a. Baba Godes (M), 28 years, from Zaria, Kaduna State; Yusuf Salihu (M), 40 years, from Kagini, FCT; Awulu Nuhu a.k.a. Zabi (M), 25 years, from Keita LGA, Katsina State; and Usman Yerima a.k.a. Dangrugru (M), 28 years, from Jimeta LGA, Adamawa State.

FCT constabulary spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said the cognition led to the betterment of 2 English pistols, 49 rounds of 9mm unrecorded ammunition, 1 grey Toyota Corolla car (2012 model), 10 android phones suspected to person been stolen from victims.

SP Adeh further said during interrogation, the suspects confessed to their engagement successful respective convulsive crimes, including the equipped robbery of Umar Y. Gowa astatine Hillside Estate, Dawaki, and the onslaught connected Volcano Peak Court Hotel, Gwarinpa, wherever guests were robbed and Bashir Dauda, popularly known arsenic DJ Bash, was fatally shot.

The constabulary further noted that, “investigations further revealed that the syndicate had been terrorizing residents of Gwarinpa and Dawaki, wherever they carried retired convulsive attacks connected unsuspecting members of the public. This was corroborated by CCTV footage that captured 1 of their attacks connected an guiltless resident, further exposing the gang’s ruthless modus operandi.

“The suspects besides provided utile accusation connected different pack members presently astatine large. Efforts are ongoing to way down and apprehend the fleeing members of the syndicate.”

Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, FCT Command, CP Ajao Adewale, has commended the Scorpion Squad and different operatives for their professionalism, courage, and resilience successful dismantling the deadly network.

He reassured FCT residents of the Command’s unwavering committedness to the extortion of lives and spot and urged the nationalist to stay vigilant and proceed to enactment the constabulary with credible information.