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Female Fulani Gun Courier Nabbed With N2.4m

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A 27-year-old female Fulani gun-runner, Aisha Nura, has been nabbed by the Katsina State Command of the Nigerian Police Force.

The Fulani bandit armorer according to the police was nabbed with the sum of N2,405,000 in Batsari Local Government Area of the state being proceeds suspected to have been garnered from her illicit trade.

Aisha, according to the police, hails from Baranda Village, a Fulani settlement in Batsari local government. She is also the wife of Nura Murnai, who is reported to be a notorious bandit terrorising Katsina and Kaduna states.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, who paraded the suspected gun-runner alongside other suspected criminals said that Aisha admitted that she collected the N2.4 million on behalf of her husband (Nura) from his counterparts in an undisclosed forest in Kaduna.

He said: “On 25th July, 2021 at about 0900hrs, based on a tip off, the Command succeeded in arresting one Aisha Nura, F, aged 27 years of Baranda Village, a Fulani settlement at Batsari LGA of Katsina State.

“Nemesis caught up with the suspect when she was arrested in a suspicious manner, concealing her presence and trying to board a motorcycle from Batsari town heading towards Nahuta Village.”

The money confiscated from Aisha Nura

He added: “Immediately she was searched, the sum of N2,405,000:0OK was found in her possession reasonably suspected to be proceeds of arms supplies to bandits in Kaduna State.

“In the course of the investigation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the offence and admitted that she was sent by her husband one Nura Alh. Murnai, a notorious bandit, belonging to the camp of bandits leader, one Abu Radda, to collect the money on his behalf from his counterparts in Kaduna forest. Investigation is ongoing.”

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that bandits operating from the forests have laid siege to several communities in Kaduna and Katsina States but the news of a female fulani bandit among them is new.

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