The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested forty-seven persons suspected to be involved in kidnapping and armed robbery in the state.
The State’s Police Commissioner, Bola Longe, who paraded the suspects in Lafia, said that thirty-eight are suspected kidnappers, while nine are suspected armed robbers.
He ascribed the success in the fight against crime in Nasarawa State to the tireless efforts of the personnel of “Operation Puff Adder”, an initiative of the Inspector-General of Police.
Longe explained that those arrested included two women believed to be suppliers of arms to the suspects, while one was said to be their cook.
He said the Police recovered six firearms and several rounds of live ammunition, others are motorcycles, fifty-three thousand naira, a laptop computer, mobile phones and assorted charms.
