The Police Command in Edo on Tuesday announced the arrest of 28 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists terrorising the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, announced this while briefing the media on the command’s activities in the last two weeks. Kokumo said that four of the suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in kidnapping, 11 for armed robbery and 13 for cultism.
He disclosed that of the four kidnap suspects is a Fulani herder, while two others disguised themselves as herders in order to perpetrate their crime.
The commissioner said that the four kidnap suspects had confessed committing the crime. He said that items recovered from the kidnap suspects were one AK 47 riffle with a breech no. KO 340119, 10 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, one Dane gun, a cutlass, a dagger and some charms.
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