No fewer than 23 suspected criminals who were said to have been involved in violent protests and rioting were arrested by police operatives in the Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State on Thursday, August 1, 2024. They were paraded before the newsmen by the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, at the premises of the State Police Command Headquarters in Minna, the state capital, on Wednesday, August 7, 2024. Unfortunately, on the same date, at about 1000 hrs, some miscreants from the Tafa area of Kagarko LGA in Kaduna State and the Sabon-Wuse Tafa and Hayin-Dikko Gurara areas of Niger State were said to have mobilised and stormed the Tafa LGA Secretariat of Niger State located along the Abuja-Kaduna motorway in Sabon-Wuse, Tafa LGA of Niger State. The police and other security agencies responded to the scene, and a total of twenty-three (23) suspects were arrested with different dangerous weapons. Also paraded before the newsmen were Ibrahim Nuhu, aged 18, Abdulrahman Abubakar, aged 18, both of Hayin-Dikko, Gurara LGA, Niger State, and Saifullahi Usman, aged 24, of the Kano/Komboso area of Kano State.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 07, 2024 23:24 UTC