The Niger State Police Command has paraded 23 suspected hoodlums who allegedly took advantage of recent protests to vandalise Tafa Local Government Secretariat.
Commissioner of Police Shawulu Danmamman, while presenting the suspects at the command headquarters in Minna, announced that they would be charged to court.
The command was also able to recover some of the looted goods belonging to the local government secretariat.
Similarly, the Commissioner of Police paraded some of the command recoveries during the period, including 15 Pump Action Rifles from suspected gun runners.
He said that based on received intelligence, an Anti-Kidnapping Unit patrol team intercepted a red Toyota Corolla (Reg. No. DKA 877 HJ) along the notorious Maikunkele-Tegina road in Niger State.
During the period, the police command also arrested a man for culpable homicide based on a report received at Kpakungu Division, regarding the disappearance of 65-year-old Abubakar Adawa from Barkin-Sale, Minna.
Police operatives, led by the DPO, visited the house and invited Mizanmil Abubakar, 29, and Aisha Abubakar, the son and wife of the victim, for questioning.
A thorough search of the compound revealed the severed body of the missing person buried in a shallow grave. Mizanmil confessed to poisoning his father’s food with rodenticide, and then dismembering and burying the body.
He claimed the act was motivated by hatred from his father.
The suspect has been transferred to SCID for further investigation and will be prosecuted upon conclusion.
