The Police High Command, on Tuesday, revealed how its operatives arrested a dismissed officer of the Nigerian Air Force who has been supplying military camouflage and other accoutrements that belong to security operatives to bandits terrorising Zamfara State.
Specifically, the police explained that the NAF personnel, Ahmed Mohammed, attached to the Air Force Base, Kaduna, only served in the air force for just five years before he was court-martialled by the military for a yet-to-be-revealed offence.
The spokesman of the police, Muyiwa Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, also disclosed that the dismissed personnel introduced sales of military camouflage and other accoutrements to Mushiri Abubakar who had supplied different camps of criminal gangs.
Adejobi said the duo had in the past supplied military camouflage to the notorious bandit, Bello Turji and his gang members who have been terrorising the state.
Parading the suspects at the headquarters of Special Tactical Squad-Intelligence Response Team in Abuja, the police spokesman listed items recovered from both Mohammed and Abubakar as 10 sets of military camouflage uniforms and 10 pieces camel pack
Other items recovered include: 2 military hats, 3 cardigans, 3 T-shirts, 2 belts and 3 anklets.He added that they were intercepted when they were transporting the items from Kaduna to Zamfara for bandits.
Daily Trust had reported how Zamfara and Kaduna, the two Northwest states, had become a haven of bandits with many victims of kidnapping syndicate.
Speaking further, the police spokesman told journalists that the operatives had resolved to dismantle the criminal syndicate, particularly those supplying arms and ammunition to bandits before going after the main criminals.
He said the bandits were powerless if they’re not holding guns and other ammunition, stressing that the network of how they get sophisticated weapons to intimidate innocent citizens would be first destroyed.
