Twenty-five crime suspects have been arrested as the Kaduna Police Command launched an anti-crime unit to battle all forms of social vices in the state.
The command embarked on the drive owing to an upsurge in thuggery (sara-suka), phone and female handbag snatching, and drug-related offences among youths in Kaduna.
What the Police Spokesperson said about the arrest in Kaduna
The spokesperson of the Police in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, said on Wednesday that “the Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command has established a new outfit with the task of clamping down on all acts of social vices in the state.”
He added: “The unit which is referred to as the Anti-Vice Unit has since started operating and will be liaising with all the divisions to diligently handle all cases of thuggery, phone snatching, drug and illicit substances consumption and peddling, possessing dangerous weapons, etc.”
“Consequently, no fewer than 25 persons have been arrested across the metropolis in relation to the aforesaid offences with 16 among them arrested within Rigasa axis and charged for thuggery (sara-suka) and being in possession of dangerous weapons.”
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Hassan said the Kaduna CP “thus, charged the new outfit to make Kaduna State, especially the metropolis, safe for the populace by continuously denying these urchins any operating space. He equally called on parents and guardians to warn their wards to desist from any act of delinquency.”
