COMMISSIONER OF POLICE BAUCHI STATE COMMAND CP AUWAL MUSA MUHAMMED PSC, PRESS BRIEFING ON 27TH DECEMBER, 2023 AT NINGI AREA COMMAND NINGI LGA, BAUCHI STATE.
The Editors,
PROTOCOL
To begin with, I am excited, at the same time nostalgic and anxious standing before you members of the fourth estate of the realm.
I must express my profound gratitude to His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Bauchi, Sen. Bala Muhammad Abdulkadir CON (Kauran Bauchi) for his unwavering commitment to the security of the State.
Today's press briefing is coming at the right time considering the security situation in our country. As you will all agree with me at this very moment, our security system is facing a significant challenge, consequently, all hands must be on deck to ensure a free and peaceful environment in our society.
It is important because we all need a violence-free society to triumph in all our various endeavors, peace, safety and security are both requirements for the development and attainment of a good quality of life for any human society, because they provide the requisite enabling environment for citizens to live and work toward the social, economic, and political development of the societies.
Furthermore, as often said, the citizens remain the most important asset in Law enforcement and the more accountable we are to them, the more trust engendered, partnership strengthened, and community safety guaranteed.
Robert peels principles of policing which emphasize that “the people are the Police, and the Police are the people.”
The importance of this is that the option of crime management remains the most potent policing model of the 22nd Indigenous Inspector-General of Police IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun Ph.D., NPM, policing vision, strategies, and leadership action are fundamentally entrenched in this firm and time-tested foundation.
Ladies and gentlemen, the unrelenting and aggressive counter-kidnapping strategies of the Command in the fight against kidnapping and other heinous crimes have continued to yield positive results as the operatives of the Command and other sister security agencies recorded yet another harvest of criminals and elements.
During this organized courageous operation, the Command was able to pull apart Kidnappers/Banditry syndicates due to the intense superior firepower by the Police, in collaboration with quasi-security outfits (Ahmed Ali Kwara) so many kidnappers were neutralized while others scampered in disarray and escaped with bullet wounds into the nearby bush.
If you may recall sometime in July 2023, eight (8) people were killed including the traditional ruler of Kada and Gamji village via Ningi LGA and kidnapped other residents to unknown destinations.
Consequently, the Command raised a team of detectives in conjunction with quasi-security outfits, (Ahmed Ali Kwara) and successfully engaged the Kidnappers/Bandits in a gun duel, on 26th December 2023, at about 0403hrs and neutralized six (6) of the kidnappers which led to the recovery of the following items;
Two (2) AK47 rifle
fifty-five (55) live ammunitions
four empty magazines
Four million five hundred and eighty thousand naira (4.580,000,00) was recovered from the kidnappers’ den as an exhibit.
One Golf three 3 blue.
Seven (7) new aitel sim cards.
Three (3) Tecno keypad phones
Two (2) itel keypad phones
One Bontel keypad phone
*The following are the stolen items recovered by the kidnappers.*
Seven (7) Tecno Android phones
Four (4) Infinix Android phones
Four (4) Tecno keypad phones
Twenty-four (24) pieces of mobile battery
One hundred and ninety (190) pieces of recharge cards both MTN and Aitel networks.
Six (6) suspected kidnappers were neutralized.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the bandits within two weeks invaded three villages around Ningi, including Bukutumbe, Iyayi, Kayadda, and Gamji village, where they shot four (4) people and killed one member of Vigilante at Bukutumbe, and proceeded to Kiyawa LGA, Jigawa State where they kidnapped two wives of the Chairman Kiyawa LGA, Jigawa State.
It's worthy to note that the groundbreaking record of the Command would be attributed to the strategic review of the Command operations through a robust partnership with Ahmed Ali Kwara hunters group with headquarters in Azare town.
May I intimate members of the public that the Command is ready to deploy both human and material assets available at its disposals to confront crime and criminality in the State, it is also pertinent to emphasize here that no form of crime will be ignored with the prior consent of the Command.
CP Auwal Musa Muhammad psc.
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