The Nigeria Police Force has announced the arrest of over 2,300 suspects in various operations carried out nationwide between February 2025 and now.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Monday, the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed that those arrested include 602 armed robbery suspects, 385 kidnapping suspects, 557 murder and homicide suspects, 215 individuals involved in unlawful possession of firearms, 286 rape suspects, and 276 suspected cultists.
Adejobi further revealed that the police recovered 333 firearms, 6,422 rounds of ammunition of various calibres, and 200 stolen vehicles during these operations. He also confirmed that 324 kidnapped victims were rescued.
Highlighting one of the major breakthroughs, Adejobi said police operatives arrested eight suspected kidnappers at the Kogi-Edo border. The suspects, identified as Tukur Salisu, Sani Abubakar, Mamud Sani, Umar Abdullahi, Salisu Mohammed, Salisu Usman, Bashir Audu, and Jibril Haruna, were apprehended on March 11, 2025.
According to Adejobi, the operatives were en route to Edo State when they ran into an ambush at Oshara Ganden, a boundary between Kogi and Edo states. The officers engaged the kidnappers and overpowered them.
Recovered from the suspects were an AK-47 rifle with 29 rounds of ammunition, an Israeli pump action rifle with four cartridges, two other pump action rifles with seven cartridges, a single-barrel rifle with two cartridges, and two operational motorcycles.
The Force spokesman assured Nigerians of the police’s commitment to tackling crime and ensuring the safety of lives and property across the country.