No fewer than seven security agents and a medical doctor allegedly aiding and abetting banditry in Zamfara state have been arrested by the police, according to the state government.
The state commissioner for information, Ibrahim Dosara, who disclosed this on Thursday at a press briefing held in Gusau explained that the medical doctor was arrested in Kamarawa village of Isa local government area of Sokoto state.
The commissioner revealed further that the doctor was arrested by men of the operation Puff Adder for allegedly supplying military kits to armed bandits, and after preliminary searching, ten pairs of military jungle boots, five sets of singers and military hand globes were recovered from him.
According to the government, the suspects who have already been interrogated and confessed to the crime, have been sabotaging military operations in the state by sharing military intelligence, supplying arms and ammunition, military uniforms, and other facilities to the armed bandits to prevent soldiers from conquering the bandits.
Though their identities were not disclosed, however, Dosara narrated that one of the suspects was caught in possession of 20 rounds of 62mm of live ammunition at the point of handing over to the buyer, one Kabiru Bashiru of Maniya village, a suspected active bandit after receiving an advanced payment of N100,000.00 from the buyer.
He explained further that the second suspect from Sokoto was caught by detectives supplying military uniforms and kits to suspected bandits while two other suspects were arrested as they were supplying bandits with ammunition and military camouflage from Lagos.
