The Police Task Force initiated by Adamawa State Police Command bursted a notorious Shila cult group, nabbed 13 members, recovered dangerous weapons.
The notorious Shila boys had in the recent time wreaked havoc in the state capital.
A statement by the police spokesman in the state DSP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje said, “in its effort to ensure total sanity of criminal activities being perpetrated by the radical Shilla Boys in the state launched a special operation yielding results.
“The command Taskforce team have so far dislodged some criminal hideouts of the notorious Shilla Cultists situated at remote sides of Jambutu, Doubeli, Wuro-Jabbe and Sanda Primary School in both Yola-North and South LGAs, apprehended 13 Suspected Shila Boys,” it stated.
It further stated that” the command equally recovered two Tricycles with registration No. YLA 027 WZ and GRE 335 QE, 10 Sharp knives, some quantity of illicit drugs, dry weeds suspected to be Indian hemp among others.
“Following the formation of the taskforce team upon assumption of office by CP Olugbenga Adeyanju, frequent raiding of black spots and criminals hideouts have been intensified as a crime preventive measures, which will be sustained.”
Nguroje assured that the suspects will be prosecuted on completion of the investigation and that the police will not relent until every member of the gang is apprehended.
It could be recalled that a mob on Saturday night killed three members of the gang, Shila boys, in Yola, capital of Adamawa State.
The boys, whose trademark is dispossessing residents of their belongings in streets, had operated successfully in the Jimeta area of the capital city.
But a group of angry residents mobilised to pursue and deal with them
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