Banditry

The  Taraba State Police Command has arrested thirteen suspected bandits and kidnappers on their watchlist for terrorizing residents of Jalingo, Yorro, Lau, and Zing local government areas of the state.

The state commissioner of Police Joseph Eribo disclosed this while parading the suspects and their exhibits at the police headquarters in Jalingo, the state capital.

Collaboration between the police and other sister security agencies, vigilante officers, and professional hunters, led to thirteen of the bandits being arrested in different parts of the state.

Over N8m cash ransom was rejected as bribe, and five AK-47 rifles and five rounds of live ammunition were recovered with five kidnap victims rescued

The bandits were said to use the adjoining mountains as a shield and any attempt to rescue victims or attack the bandits would lead to collateral damage.

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