Woman who secures weapons for kidnappers’ caught and arrested

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Woman who secures weapons for kidnappers’ caught and arrested

The Nigeria Police Special Tactical Squad (STS) has arrested a 28-year-old woman Fatima Garba, said to be an armourer for bandits in Sokoto and other states.

She was arrested alongside her alleged kidnap gang members.

The gang had been operating in Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna and Niger states, police said.

Force spokesman DCP Frank Mba said in a statement that as an armourer, Fatima was responsible for ensuring the safety of the bandits’ weapons whenever not in use.

The police said Fatima, who confessed to being the gang’s armourer for over a year, claimed to receive a handsome reward each time the weapons were returned to her after each operation.

Police said she acknowledged knowing that the arms she kept in a neatly dug hole in her compound were used for robbery, kidnapping and other criminal purposes.

The release said police also smashed a two-man car stealing gang led by one 34-year-old Bashir Isiaku, notorious for stealing cars from the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) park.

The arrest of Bashir, a polytechnic graduate, followed painstaking efforts and investigations by operatives of the STS, the statement said.

The police said Bashir and his accomplice, Aminu Yakubu, specialised in using customised master keys crafted out of screwdriver to open and start vehicles.

Police investigations showed that the criminals favoured cars without special security features such as pedal or steering locks, Mba said.