Police Arrests Top Bandit Leader, Yellow Ashana, Others In Kaduna

The Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a top bandits leader in a raid.

Naija News understands that the terrorist leader, Ahmed Yunusa, better known as Yellow Ashana was paraded at the command headquarters on Thursday alongside other criminals.

Yellow Ashana and his syndicates according to police reports, have been terrorizing communities and commuters plying the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.

The 36-year-old criminal is said to have been on the run following a raid that led to the death of a member of his syndicate, Yellow Magaji alias Arushe.

Ashana, however, met his waterloo during a sting operation by officers of the Police FIB-STS. The hardened criminal has acknowledged leading a syndicate to launch deadly attacks on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, Kadara town in Kaduna.

He also confessed to the kidnap and murder of one Hafsat Isah, who according to him was lured into their camp by her friend, Ladi Sale, also arrested by the police.

Naija News understands that the police unit also apprehended one Mrs Nvou Michael, 37-year-old female from Vom LGA, Plateau State along Samminaka/Jos highway in Kaduna.

She was in possession of 15 locally made rifles and 400 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm AK47 ammunition concealed in a Toyota Hummer heading to Kaduna from Jos.

Mrs Michael is said to be an arms smuggler who supplies a number of bandit groups in Kaduna.

Additionally, one Nuhu Yakubu, a 33-year-old male from Donga, Taraba State, was caught while conveying 1,500 AK47 ammunition from Wukari to bandits in Donga Forest.

The FIB-STS equally apprehended Idris Abdulwahab, 26-year-old, and Adams Ibrahim, 37-year-old, both from Okene, Kogi State.

They were linked to major bank robberies at Ondo State, and in Egbe, Yagba West LGA of Kogi in 2021; they killed a security guard.

The suspects specialize in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to forcefully gain access into banks.

They were caught with ₦1,880,000 at a checkpoint in Isonu, Kogi, while heading to Okene from their forest hideout, Naija News understands.