The bandits had been killed within the early hours of Friday, January 26, at about 2am in a forest linking Abuja to Kaduna State.
Among the many three slain bandits was their gang chief, Mai Gemu, popularly often known as Godara, who alongside together with his gang members terrorized the FCT and neighboring states.
The Power Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed the event in Abuja on Friday in the course of the parade of about twenty felony suspects arrested throughout the nation for varied offences.
Adejobi stated: “We have now taken one other essential step in the direction of strengthening the safety panorama within the Federal Capital Territory following the latest launch of the Particular Intervention Squad commanded by the Inspector Normal of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun.
“The SIS, within the early hours of Friday, neutralized one of the vital wished kidnap kingpins, Mai Gemu alias Godara and two different members of his gang in a gunfire within the Bwari space of Abuja in a forest linking Abuja to Kaduna State . ”
The Particular Intervention Squad of the Federal Capital Territory Police had taken over a serious route in Usafa, Bwari Space Council, utilized by bandits to move their victims from Abuja to neighboring Kaduna, Niger, Nasarawa and Kogi states.
The FCT SIS Commander, Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igwe confirmed the event final Saturday when a workforce of armed cops and crime reporters stormed the rugged and hilly elements of Ushafa neighborhood as SIS operatives occupied guards to flush out bandits.
The FCT is dealing with an alarming enhance in insecurity, elevating rising considerations amongst residents and authorities. The capital, as soon as thought of comparatively resistant to prevailing safety issues in different elements of the nation, is now experiencing an escalating wave of felony exercise, particularly kidnappings.
Among the many most notorious incidents up to now seven months is the kidnapping of 23 individuals, together with some members of the Al-Kadriyar and Ariyo households, on January 2, 2024 in Bwari Space Council.
