The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old woman, Rashida Hussaini, suspected to be a bandit’s wife and supplier of petrol to the criminals in the forest.
Spokesman of the command, SP Gambo Isah, while parading the suspect at the police Headquarters, said she was arrested along Kofar Guga-Jibiya Road with 6 gallons of petrol concealed in a sack and a handbag hidden under her hijab.
Isah said the suspect raised suspicion when she could not give a definite address where she came from.
“From all indications, life is miserable for the bandits as they resort to sending their wives to disguise and come out to the town to buy petrol in sacks and leather, hide under their hijab and take to them in Forest. The investigation is ongoing."
The police also said the act contravened the containment order banning sales of petrol in jerry can
It also said it would charge her for aiding and abeting banditry, more so that the suspect’s husband is presently in the forest.
The arrest accord to Isah, is in furtherance to the implementation and enforcement of the Security Containment Order, signed by Governor Aminu Masari, over the rising case of banditry in the state.
Speaking over her arrest, the suspect confessed to have come from Hirji in Niger Republic, denying that the petrol is for bandits in the forest, saying they were meant for grinding machines.
She further denied that her husband is a bandit in the forest, but in Ghana.
Isah said the suspect will be charged to court at the end of investigations to serve as a deterrent to others.
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