TARABA POLICE REJECTS OVER N8 MILLION BRIBE, ARREST 13 SUSPECTED BANDITS
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Thirteen alleged bandits and kidnappers who had been frightening people in the state’s local government areas of Jalingo, Yorro, Lau, and Zing have been taken into custody by the Taraba State Police Command.
While parading the suspects and their evidence at the police headquarters in Jalingo, the state capital, on Wednesday, state commissioner of police Joseph Eribo made this revelation.
The arrest comes in response to the public uproar over the hoodlums’ criminal acts, which the police claim have taken on an alarming scale.
The police decided to use all of its operational resources to address the new trend because they claim the bandits use the surrounding mountains as a shield and that any attempt to confront the bandits or rescue victims results in collateral harm.
Thirteen bandits were taken into custody across the state following cooperation between the police and other sister security agencies, vigilante cops, and professional hunters. Five AK-47 guns and five rounds of live ammunition were found, and five abduction victims were freed when the over N8 million cash ransom was rejected as a bribe.
In addition, three energy vandals were taken into custody for breaking into and damaging the electrical transformers of the police headquarters and Yola Energy Distribution Company (YEDC) in the state’s Lau Local Government Area.
The bandits and kidnappers in the course of interrogation say they usually collaborate with the electricity vandals to vandalize electricity transformers which gives them easy access to kidnap or kill in communities experiencing power outages, especially at night.
The police also arrested an armed robbery suspect who stole a vehicle from a victim but was later recovered by the police.
Some of the bandits who allegedly masterminded the kidnap of a traditional ruler, a pastor, and an imam as well as a kidnapper who collected over N8m ransom among others confessed to having committed the crime.
The police say all the suspects will be charged to court in line with the state’s anti-kidnapping law and will ensure that justice is served.
While reiterating that the command will always remain resolute in protecting the lives and property of residents, the police commissioner appreciated the state Governor, Agbu Kefas, for his unflinching support to security agencies to enthrone a peaceful, safe, secured, and economically viable state.
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