174 'suspected terrorists' arrested in Kaduna

Kaduna State Police Command has arrested about 174 suspected terrorists in the state within the last two months.

The state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar, who disclosed this at a news conference yesterday in Kaduna, also said several materials used for making Improvised Explosive Devices, (IED) were recovered.

Abubakar said 27 of the suspects were arrested in the Rigasa area of the metropolis where several policemen had been killed in the past while 147 of the suspects were arrested during the recent crisis in the state.

He revealed that the police in its efforts to clampdown on criminal elements, a confessed terrorist led a team of detectives from the command’s Anti Robbery Squad to Rafin-Guza area of the city where a house, believed to be the hide out of terrorists was raided.

Some of the items recovered, according to the police commissioner, include different cans of explosives, a bomb making powder, four military uniforms, two bags of chemical used in making bombs, two masks, one AK 47 magazine with 27 rounds of live
ammunition among others.