The Katsina State Police Command have arrested a 25-year-old suspected fake medical practitioner, Musa Shamsudeen, who specialises in the treatment of bandits in the state.
The Command also arrested an 18-year-old suspected rapist, Mustapha Jibril, some groups of suspected bandits and miscreants.
While parading the suspected criminals, Police Spokesman Gambo Isah, said that the arrest was in furtherance of the Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba’s zero-tolerance to crime and banditry.
Caught with large quantities of various drugs used in the treatment of the Bandits, the suspected doctor, Musa Shamsudeen, is an indigene of Kogi State, but resides in Kankara.
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He was arrested within the kankara forest, a front line local government areas, bedevilled with the Bandits activities.
The police Public relations officer revealed that the suspected fake doctor had disappeared from Kankara, on the day the 344 Kankara schoolboys were abducted by the bandits.
Reacting to the development, the suspect claimed to have studied biology at the College of Health Technology, Idah, in Kogi State.
Shamsudeen also claimed that he too was abducted by bandits, with whom he spent 8 days, before his eventual release after a ransom was paid by his brothers.
Though he denied being a doctor, he could not however state categorically the circumstances surrounding the drugs found in his possession at the time of his arrest.
The police spokesman also spoke on an 18-year-old boy, Mustapha Jubril, alleged to have raped an 11-year-old girl in an uncompleted building at Kankara.
As a result of the unlawful act, the victim was reported to have been seriously wounded in her private part, and taken to the hospital.
The suspect, did not deny, but was sobber when told about the consequences of his action, and begged for mercy.
Other arrests made by the police included suspected inter-state bandits, kidnappers and armed robbers, from whom 3 locally fabricated rifles with 10 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition and locally made pellets, were recovered, after a gun duel.
The Police said that those arrested will soon be charged to court after their investigations.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi
