Operatives of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad, SAKCCS, in Delta has apprehended a Katsina State-born supplier of arms and ammunition to herdsmen and kidnap syndicates in Delta State.
The Delta state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who confirmed the arrest of the arms dealer said: “His arrest is a major breakthrough for us in the battle against killer- herdsmen and kidnappers in the state.”
Ibrahim said that the operatives acted on intelligence, swooped on him at about 16.45 hours on June 1, adding the 56-year-old notorious kidnap kingpin, illegal arms dealer and supplier of arms and ammunition to kidnap syndicates from Dutsenma town, in Katsina state has been on watch list for a long time.
Although investigation is ongoing but the suspect who according to reports resides at Cable Point area in Asaba and has been linked with most kidnappings related cases and also supply of arms and ammunition.
In a related development, the Safer Highways Patrol 019 stationed at Edo/Delta boundary at Alifekede community has arrested a 40-year-old suspect, Sylvester, who specialized in opening and stealing parked vehicles with a master key.
Sylvester we gathered ran out of luck when the high way patrol caught him in a Toyota Camry car, registration number, DELTA AKU 837 HT, white in color, when the team flagged him down for a search and upon interrogation on discovering some discrepancies in the vehicle particulars, he confessed to have used a master key to remove the car from where it was parked.
