{"id":44403,"date":"2020-11-05T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=44403"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:27:37","slug":"leaders-of-notorious-bandits-surrender-10-ak-47-rifle-to-governor-masari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/leaders-of-notorious-bandits-surrender-10-ak-47-rifle-to-governor-masari\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Of Notorious Bandits Surrender 10 AK 47 Rifle To Governor Masari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Okosun Dennis<\/p>\n<p>In an uncommon development in crime fighting, two separate leaders of notorious bandits on Wednesday repented and surrendered 10 AK 47 to the Katsina State Governor, Hon Aminu Bello Masari, and the Commissioner of Police, Katsina state Command.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44407\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-110x83.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003-573x430.jpg 573w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-20201105-WA0003.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two bandits idenfied as Sale Turwa, 30, and Muhammadu Sani Maidaji, 33, are both of Illella village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina state.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, who confirmed the breakthough explained that the syndicates have been terrorizing the state.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Today, 4th November, 2020 about 10:00hrs, due to persistent pressure and actionable intelligence, two separate gang leaders of notorious syndicates of bandits terrorizing Katsina state, surrendered and repented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others that were there to witness the handing over of the weapons included the Commander 17 Brigade, Katsina, and the Director, Department of State Security Services.<\/p>\n<p>The repented bandits later handed the 10 AK 47 rifles to the Commissioner of Police as investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an uncommon development in crime fighting, two separate leaders of notorious bandits on Wednesday repented and surrendered 10 AK 47 to the Katsina State Governor, Hon Aminu Bello Masari, and the Commissioner of Police, Katsina state Command.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7744,7745],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-44403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-aminu-bello-masari","tag-katsina-police-state-command"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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