Thursday 23 December 2021:Operatives of the Nigerian police, Zamfara state command has rescued a three-month-old baby and seized sophisticated weapons from bandits in Zamfara.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ayuba Elkanah, disclosed this to newsmen during an interview in Gusau on Wednesday.
Elkanah said that the victims were abducted from Ruggar Tudu Village in Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara.
He revealed that the police operatives also arrested three suppliers of hard drugs to bandits, and recovered some items from bandits.
Some of the recovered items include one motorcycle, eight AK-47 rifles, one General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), one Rocket launcher and five magazines.
Elkanah while giving an update on the activities of the police in the last four months, the police commissioner maintained the State Police Command has recorded tremendous successes in the ongoing war against banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, and other crimes in Zamfara.
This is even as he reiterated the ban on the use of fireworks in Zamfara with a warning that the police would not spare any person found culpable.