Kogi Police command, on Thursday arrested 24 persons suspected to be kidnappers, armed robbers and bandits.
Busari said that the police had received distress calls and other information that the suspects were behind series of kidnapping on Obajana-Kabba road, NAN reports. According to the commissioner, four rifles, comprising one AK47, two pump-action and one single barrel gun and 30 rounds of live ammunitions and 12 cartridges were recovered from them.
Also arrested for alleged armed robbery, he said, were Abdulkarim Sunday and Benjamin Stephen, who were caught at Ayangba on May 5, adding that one locally-made gun and a telephone were recovered from them. According to him, the fulani herdsmen stopped over in the village to break their fast when they were attacked by the armed youths.
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