By Linus Aleke
The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, CP Haruna Garba, has tasked officers and men of the command to increase their tempo and aggressively flush out miscreants from the Federal Capital Territory.
This is even as the operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, attached to the Utako Divisional Headquarters, arrested no fewer than four suspects in connection with the stabbing and causing grievous hurt on one Labaran Usman in the Jabi area of the FCT.
Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh, in a statement, identified the suspected assailants as Mubarak Ibrahim ‘M,’ 24yrs; Mohammed Adamu ‘M,’ 18yrs and Aliyu Ibrahim ‘M,’ 19yrs.
She noted that the assailants, were arrested by the Police team while responding to a distress call that someone was stabbed by a group of young men suspected to be cult members around Jabi car park.
She added that exhibits recovered from the suspects include two daggers used in the perpetration of the dastardly act.
“The team while intensifying investigations on the earlier arrest, on the same date, arrested another member of the group, one Ibrahim Tsoho Musa ‘M,’ 48yrs old, from Jos North LGA, Plateau State. A search was conducted on his residence at Angwa Fulani Bwari, FCT, at 18:00hrs, where one locally fabricated rifle, loaded with six rounds of ammunition, one military camouflage trouser, and two dagger were recovered from him,” the statement further revealed.
Investigations by the Police team, she said, have revealed how the suspects perpetrated the crime and other nefarious activities they have committed within the FCT.
The PPRO said, effort is been made to unravel the source of the recovered firearm and also to clamp down on other members of the criminal syndicates still at large.
“The victim, Labaran Usman ‘M,’ 32yrs from Kaduna State, who was promptly taken to the hospital for medical attention is confirmed to be recuperating,” she concluded.
