[News] 20 arrested as Bauchi police bust suspected criminal syndicates notorious for organizing sex parties, phone snatching, thuggery

Bauchi State Police Command has smashed criminal syndicates notorious for organising sex parties, thuggery, phone snatching and arrested 20.

The suspected sex party organisers were paraded alongside other crime suspects at the police headquarters on Wednesday, January 13.

Spokesperson of the Command, DSP Ahmed Wakili, said the suspects were arrested following reliable information about their activities.

“Based on reliable intelligence that suspected criminal syndicates notorious for thuggery (Sara-Suka), phone snatching, and indecent acts including sex parties, were terrorising residents of the state, the Commissioner of Police CP Lawan Tanko Jimeta, raised a team of detectives led by the Commander Rapid Respond Squad (RRS) who immediately embarked on a round the clock operation which resulted in the apprehension of the suspects,” said Wakili.

Those arrested included (1) Ishaya Adamu 19yrs, (2) Mohammed Abdullahi Lawwali 22yrs, (3) Ayuba Adamu 19yrs, (4) Aminu Tago 19yrs, Mubarak Baba 22yrs, (5) Anas Sulaiman alias (Danarna) 16yrs, (6) Yusuf Ahmed 20yrs, (7) and Abba Abdullahi 20yrs.

Others are; (8) Sulaiman Umar 20yrs, (9) Abdulrashid Ali 17yrs, (10) Aliyu Iliya 15yrs, (11) Idris Sulaiman 22yrs, (12) Nuru Sarki 17yrs, (13) Ibrahim Musa 20yrs, (14) Musa Danasabe 17yrs, Abdulrashid Anas 18yrs, Salmanu Ibrahim 22yrs and Kasimu Haladu 26yrs, all of Dass town, Bauchi State.

Wakil added that findings revealed that on same day of their arrest at about 8:pm, they had conspired among themselves and organized a party suspected to be sex party with attendant commiting series of atrocities within Dass town.

Items recovered from the suspects included one Ranki, one tsitaka, one machete, one cutlass, and three knives.

The suspects will be profiled and charged to court.