Kaduna police parade 18 notorious kidnappers, robbers

Kaduna State Police Command says it will not relent in its crime prevention until the citizens of the state can go about their lawful businesses without any hindrance.

The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Agyole Abeh disclosed this to newsmen in Kaduna on Monday at the parading of eighteen suspected notorious criminal involved in car snatching, kidnapping and armed robbery.

He explained that the criminals who were arrested within the state environment included six armed robbers, seven kidnappers and imposters while exhibits such as five Toyota cars, two Honda cars, local made guns, machetes, different calibre of plant vehicle numbers and charms were intercepted during the police raid.

Abeh stressed that these are the major offences but the police are still have on daily basis night race and that some suspects that was arrested in connection with possession of hard drugs have been sent to Drug Law Enforcement Agency-NDLEA because they has the facility for prosecution of such offenders.

He also mentioned that the twenty-one common criminals, like the Sara-Suka’s who are becoming a menace in communities that were raided last few weeks have been charged to court and some of them are being reminded to prison.

Abeh stressed that the police force is not going to relent in the fight against criminalities, saying a safer society, gives room for business to strive and will ensure Kaduna will be the safest place in the country and remains a near crime free society.

His words: We are not going to relent on the fight against criminalities because a safer society, gives room for business to strive and we want Kaduna to be the safest place in the country that is what l intend to do.

“I am going to be sure that at the end of this fight, Kaduna remains a near crime free society, that what l set out to do as the CP of the state so we are going to see some of these criminals so that you will speak with them even due the law said until they are proven guilty but we can infer that a man with a gun, cut in a sense of crime will now work on what we called presumption. So the contrary is based on him to prove that he is not a criminal, what were you been doing with a gun so he has to now convince us that he is not a criminal.”

“We have mapped out a lot of crime preventive measures within the city centre and it is paying up because we can said that since we the police are also part of the society and leave within the society, we are supposed to be convinced that the level of crime within the city centre has dropped and we want it to get to a stage in which a very single civilian will notice that there are no crime seriously committed in the State.”