His appointment followed the promotion of the CP Sanusi Buba to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police.
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The State’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Sanusi Buba made the confirmation Thursday while addressing his last press conference on the achievements of the Command in the year 2021.
According to available information, Rabe was killed on Wednesday night in his residence at Fatima Shema Housing Estate.
Katsina Police Commissioner, Sanusi Buba, confirmed the incident on Thursday.
Buba said at a press conference on Thursday in Katsina that the bandits surrendered 26 rifles, hundreds of ammunition and 45 stolen cows.
It was learnt that on Tuesday at about 9:21pm, the Area Commander, Dutsinma and team responded to a distress call that bandits numbering over 50 on motorbikes, shooting sporadically with AK47 rifles attacked Unguwar Bera and Tashar Mangoro villages of Dutsinma LGA of Katsina State.
The police alleged that one Haruna Yusuf, 47, and other suspects found with two machine guns and 179 anti-aircraft ammunition, were arrested.
It was learnt that the deployment of Police Special Forces, Counter-Terrorism Units and Police Mobile Force in addition to the existing “Operation Puff Adder” by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, to Katsina State led to massive raids and several arrests of suspected bandits.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Sanusi Buba, on behalf of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, presented the cheques to families of the slain officers.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a statement on Friday
Sanusi Buba, the Commissioner of Police in the state, disclosed this during a press briefing on Thursday in Katsina.
The Commissioner, Katsina State Police Command, Sanusi Buba, has directed the release on bail of all suspects with bailable offences as part of measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19.
The spokesman of the Command, Gambo Isah, disclosed to newsmen on Wednesday in Katsina.
Isah said: “All Area Commanders, DPOs, CIDs, SARS and SIB, have been directed to release on bail all suspects whose offences are bailable, and also to avoid unnecessary detention of suspects.
“It is pertinent at this moment to reiterate the commitment of the Katsina state police command to the measures taken by the Katsina state government and the Inspector-General of Police, aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic.”
According to him, such measures include the total ban on social gatherings and events in the state.
Buba also called on all business owners to provide hand sanitisers for those seeking to enter their business premises.
“They are to also provide thermometers to measure people’s temperature,” he said.
A Superintendent of Police and Divisional Police Officer of Mashi, Katsina State, Garba Talawai, has been arrested along with his girlfriend, Sadiya Danyaya, over the death of Danyay’s 16-year-old housemaid, Rabiu Abdullahi.
The Katsina State Police Command said on Monday that it has so far arrested no fewer than 70 suspected kidnappers from April to date across the state.