POLICE ARREST 8 "SHILA" BOYS, 23 OTHERS, RECOVER 8 HANDSETS

 

POLICE ARREST 8 "SHILA" BOYS, 23 OTHERS, RECOVER 8 HANDSETS

Adamawa State Police Command on Monday, paraded about 8 suspected "Shila" boys as well as 23 other suspects nabbed for various criminal activities.

Other 23 suspects were paraded for various crimes including culpable homicide, domestic violence, rape, causing grievious hurt, criminal conspiracy and kidnapping among others.

The command recovered 1 Toyota starlet car(blue), 5 locally made single barrel guns, 8 handsets, 3 matchets, 1 laptop, Tiger Generator, a dagger, 2 live cartridges, MP3, torchlight amd hard drugs.

Parading the suspects, the Commissioner of Police, S. K. Akande, said that the command carried out a tactical and intelligence deriven dusk to down raid of criminal hideout and arrested the suspects.

CP Akande, told newsmen that the suspects were arrested by the police operatives drawn from Crack Squad, Special Rapid Squad, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Divisional Police headquarters.

According to him, the the tremendous achievements were recorded during the week under review and vowed not to relent in combating crime in the society.

He said that the state is calmed at the moment due to extensive patrols being carried out by the operatives of the command.

On the menace of "shila" boys, he disclosed that the command will do everything possible to know who started "shila" activities and who are currently behind them.

He however lamented the raising cases of domestic violence and culpable homicide, and appealed to the general public not to relent in reporting such cases to the police.