The Police Command in Borno said it arrested 45 criminal suspects for various offenses including terrorism

The Police Command in Borno said it arrested 45 criminal suspects for various offenses including terrorism, armed robbery, kidnapping, and cattle rustling in the state.

DSP Edet Okon, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Maiduguri.

Okon said that 10 suspected armed robbers, seven cattle rustlers, five fraudsters,  seven thieves, one terrorist, and kidnappers were arrested by the command in the last one month.

He said: “The robbery suspects, who confessed to being guilty, conspired and robbed one Iliya Musa of N49,000 while armed with dangerous weapons on July 3.

“(A suspect) at about 23:30 hours on April 18, robbed one Abdulkarim Umar of his tricycle while being transported to Modusuku in Biu Local Government Area.

“The suspect repeatedly stabbed the rider before dispossessing him of his tricycle.

“(Two other suspects) conspired to rob one Hassan Abdullahi of Bayo LGA of his motorcycle which he later sold for N70,000.

“(Five  other suspects) were also arrested in connection to the various robbery case.”

On cattle rustling, the police spokesperson said that two suspects were arrested at Gubio LGA for rustling 31 cattle, after which the cows were found wandering around the Diffa axis of Niger Republic.

He said that three other suspects were arrested in possession of eight rustled cows which were among 19 from Cameroon.