Suspects confess to supplying bread, drug, others for bandits.
Operatives of the FIB Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) have busted the activities of a syndicate allegedly supplying drugs, bread and other food items to bandits operating in Zaria, Kaduna State and its environs.
An alleged member of the syndicate,
admitted to making about N150,000 weekly from supplying bread to the bandits. He claimed that his income from the venture increased to N70,000 a day while some university students abducted in Kaduna were in their custody.
According to The Nation, the suspects would be charged with criminal conspiracy and kidnapping, revealed that the syndicate was busted by the team of FIB-IRT at the Rigachikun base after supplying bread to the bandits in their hideout in the forest at about 5pm on June 8, based on reliable information.
Among the arrested suspects were Abubakar Ibrahim a.k.a Abu Rewire of Kuregu village in Wasasa Zaria; Auwal Abubakar of Zaria City; Hassan Magaji of Galadimawa village and Ibrahim Kabiru a.k.a. Abba of Galadimawa village.
On interrogation, the suspects confessed to being the ones supplying bread to the bandits at Galadimawa, Damari, Kidandan and Awala camps in Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government areas, Kaduna State.
The suspects were said to have led the detectives to their factory where 150 loaves of bread were recovered.
In his confessional statement, Auwal Abubakar, was said to have admitted that the syndicate was giving information to bandits on account of which they carried out kidnapping and cattle rustling in the Zaria axis.
