Police speak on notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, ‘joining’ Force
- The Nigerian police dangle warned that even handed one of the most well-known wished bandit kingpins, Bello Turjii, is now now not an officer, even supposing there are images of him sporting police uniform
- Turji is said to be even handed one of the most deadliest terrorists in Nigeria’s north-west geopolitical zone, with a total bunch of opponents below his record
- The police, by its spokesperson, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said contrary to claims in some quarters, there became once “by no components” a time Turji became once recruited into the Pressure
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FCT, Abuja – The Nigeria Police Pressure (NPF) has described insinuations that a notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, became once once recruited into the police as unfounded.
This denial became once made on Wednesday, January 17, by ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the police spokesperson.
Adejobi said the record of Turji in a police uniform being circulated on-line “is now now not a new one”.
He wrote on his identified X (beforehand Twitter) contend with:
“Turji has by no components been recruited into the police. Or now now not it’s a lie. This record is now now not a new one.”
The Punch also reported that the Zamfara affirm police record pushed aside rumours that Turji had been recruited into the Pressure as section of the reconciliation job.
The spokesperson for the affirm police record, Yazid Abubakar, said Turji became once neither a member of the Nigeria Police Pressure nor affiliated with the institution in any components.
He acknowledged: “It is key to uncover that the said bandits on the total receive such uniforms after they murder uniformed personnel or attack operational formations.”
Banditry: Tension-afflicted Zamfara residents soar
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that four communities in Maru LGA of Zamfara affirm – Mahuta, Mutumji, Kwana, and Unguwar Kawo, were abandoned following the kidnapping of 110 of us by bandits.
The Zamfara residents were kidnapped for refusing to pay N110 million month-to-month levy to a notorious terrorist chief.
Police arrest notorious bandits’ chief
Meanwhile, police dangle arrested a suspected bandits’ chief, identified as Rabiu Yusuf, entirely called Rabee, on the usual Tunga Mallam market, Paikoro LGA of Niger affirm.
The commissioner of police in Niger affirm, Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, made this disclosure to newsmen while parading a good deal of suspects arrested by his record.
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