The Chairman of the task team, Ikharo Attah made this known while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
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The kidnappers of the grandson of renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, have been arrested and the three-year-old boy rescued.
In the course of the operation, code-named: Hash-Caste, the Agency arrested one Oladapo Ifedayo Oluseyi Adedayo, the suspected owner of the laboratory, which engages in indoor growing of cannabis sativa and processing same into Hashish oil through clandestine laboratory extraction.
The Director-General of the Agency, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, stated this in Lagos during the official handover of pirates arrested by the Nigerian Navy for prosecution.
Enenche said the success was recorded when combined troops of Sector 2 deployed in Gbise and Zaki Biam in Benue State and Sector 4 from Taraba State raided the hideout of Gana in Mtan village in Utenge Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area on Saturday.
A statement issued by the spokesman of the Command, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, on Sunday in Enugu, quoted the Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdurrahman, as giving the order.
The Nasarawa State Police Command as of Thursday has prosecuted 1,080 violators of the restriction of movement order by the government.
Users of the Rivers and Onne Ports have raised the alarm over the loss of their investments and perishable consignments as a result of the arrest of port workers by the state COVID-19 task force on the orders of Nyesom Wike, the governor.
The Federal Road Safety Corps has arrested 396 vehicles conveying over 2,422 passengers in its 12 Zonal Commands across the country.
The Nigerian military has arrested 28 informants leaking operational secrets to the Boko Haram terrorists.
The Rivers State Government has intercepted two trailers conveying cattle and 14 persons from Adamawa State in Port Harcourt for violating the COVID-19 lockdown order in the state.
Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested 23 suspected kidnappers with three AK47 rifles.
The Ebonyi State Police Command says it has arrested a youth gang for allegedly killing a Police Officer attached to a Chinese mining company in the state.
The Anambra State Police Command says it has arrested three suspected members of a car snatching syndicate and two other robbery suspects in the state.
The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested 15 more suspected cultists terrorising Ifo and its environs.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Bala Elkana, says there is a statewide operation to apprehend joggers and other violators of the lockdown order by President Muhammadu Buhari.
A 35-year-old-man simply identified as Sunday had allegedly murdered the Onibedo of Ilotin, Ikole Ekiti, Chief Sola Fatunla, in a farm in Ikole Ekiti, headquarters of Ikole Local Government Area of the state after he accused him of snatching his wife.
The Kaduna State Police Command said it has arrested 21 people and impounded 53 vehicles for allegedly violating the COVID-19 curfew within one week.
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested six notorious armed robbery suspects operating within the state for some months now.
The Kaduna State Police Command said its operatives in collaboration with other security agencies have arrested 165 people and impounded 205 vehicles for violating COVID-19 curfew.