The Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have successfully dismantled an illicit fertiliser production operation, apprehended five suspects, recovered various production machinery and adulterated fertiliser products
This is disclosed in a press release issued on Tuesday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil.
Wakil explained, “On 10 May 2025, operatives of the Command’s Monitoring Unit acted promptly based on intelligence received from a reliable source accusing one Muhammad Abubakar of producing adulterated herbicides at his residence in the Magaji Quarters of Bauchi.
“The suspect was traced down and captured in the market while possessing six bags of suspected adulterated fertiliser and forty-six bottles of adulterated herbicides.”
The PPRO revealed that a subsequent search warrant executed at his residence yielded several incriminating items, including “Thirty-eight empty cartons of assorted herbicides, Fourteen NPK sacks, Nine Indorama sacks, One empty Jerry can, Five spoons, Charcoal stoves, a bundle of nylon, Sacks containing Ztars and lambda powder.
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the charges and implicated Abubakar Umar, a resident of the same vicinity, as an accomplice.”
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