36-year-old bandit leader, Ahmed Yunusa also known as Yellow Ashana, terrorizing communities and road users along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, has been arrested by the police.
He had been on the run following a raid that led to the death of a member of his syndicate, Yellow Magaji alias Arushe.
Ashana arrested during a sting operation by officers of the Police FIB-STS.
He admitted to supervising kidnappings on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway and launched different deadly attacks on Kadara town in Kaduna.
The bandit leader further confessed to the kidnap and murder of Hafsat Isah, lured into their camp by her friend, Ladi Sale, also arrested by the police.
37-year-old, Mrs Nvou Michael, from Vom LGA, Plateau State, was also intercepted along Samminaka/Jos highway in Kaduna.
She was in possession of 15 locally made rifles and 400 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm AK47 ammunition concealed in a Toyota Hummer heading to Kaduna from Jos.
The suspect was described an arms smuggler for a number of bandit groups in Kaduna.
Additionally one Nuhu Yakubu, a 33-year-old male from Donga, Taraba State, was caught while conveying 1,500 AK47 ammunition from Wukari to bandits in Donga Forest.
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