KANO — Kano State Police Command has arrested 42 notorious thugs (Yan Daba) and 21 drug dealers in the last two months at different locations within the metropolitan local government areas of the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa disclosed this to journalists in Kano, who said a large number of assorted weapons and Illicit drugs were recovered from the suspects included tramadol tablets worth N29,940,000.00 and exol tablets valued at N3,250,000.00.
Kiyawa said with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman, on community-based policing, the command conducted a clearance operation led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Shua’ibu Dikko.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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