Police said recovered from suspected kidnappers 16 locally made guns and five cutlasses.
Four suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the police on Saturday in Gusau and Shinkafi local government areas of Zamfara State.
The police said it recovered from them, 16 locally made guns and five cutlasses.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Zamfara Police Command, SP Muhammad Shehu, the suspects were arrested on Thursday.
Shehu said during the operations carried out by the IGP Special Tactical Squad in conjunction with the command’s tactical teams various criminal hide-outs in Zawuyya, Badarawa and Birnin-yero Villages in Gusau and Shinkafi local government were raided.
Shehu said the suspects arrested were alleged to be involved in various criminal activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery and culpable homicide, among others.
He spoke about previous operations in which the police arrested 72 suspected bandits and kidnappers at some identified criminals hideouts.
According to him, 73 unregistered motorcycles were recovered.
He added that 43 out of the 72 suspects had been charged to court.
29 others, he said, were still being investigated
