Zamfara state police command has announced the arrest of two suspected informants who collaborate the armed bandits operations along Munhaye forest in Tsafe local government area of the state.
The two suspected informants arrested according to the police spokesperson SP Shehu Muhammad include one Hauwau Usman aged (43) and Aliyu Mamuda also aged (43)
“On 6th October, 2022, Police Tactical Operatives acted on intelligence information and arrested the above named suspects who were allegedly collaborating with notorious bandits from Munhaye forest in Tsafe LGA”.
One of the suspects, Hauwa’u Usman, a female residing in Gusau confessed that Ali and Hamza are her younger brothers and are among the bandits who are based at Munhaye forest terrorizing communities of Tsafe and neighbouring Katsina State.
Intelligence information about her revealed that she has been an informant to her two younger brothers (Bandits) in the bbush
Even though, she denied fraternizing with them, but she indicted the second suspect Aliyu Mamuda to be the supplier of drugs, food stuff, operational motorcycles for banditry and hiring labourers for the bandits to go and farm their farmlands in the bush.