…”I made N70,000 daily”, says suspect
Police operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Kaduna have discovered a bread bakery in the Galadimawa area of the State where thousands of loaves of bread are baked and supplied to the various camps of bandits scattered in several forests in the area.
The operatives also apprehended the brains behind the criminal enterprise.
The suspects, identified as Hassan Magaji, Abubakar Ibrahim, Auwal Abubakar and Ibrahim Kabiru were picked up on June 8, while heading to Damari Forest to deliver loaves of bread to suspected bandits.
On interrogation, the suspects confessed to being the ones supplying bread to the bandits at Galadimawa, and other bandits’ camps in Birnin-Gwari and Giwa local government areas of the State.
The suspects were said to have led the detectives to their factory where 150 loaves of bread were recovered.
The baker, Hassan Magaji, a native of Galadimawa village, who is married with two wives and three children, admitted to making about N150,000 weekly from supplying bread to the bandits.
He said his income from the venture rose sharply at a point to N70,000 a day while some university students abducted in Kaduna were in their custody.
A police source said the suspects would be charged with criminal conspiracy and kidnapping.
Since December last year, armed men have attacked many schools and universities in the Northwest, abducting more than 700 students.
