PRESS RELEASE

09/05/2020

INTERCEPTION AND RETURN OF TWO HUNDRED YOUTH SUSPECTED TO BE ALMAJIRI.

The Kwara State Police Command, acting on intelligence, intercepted a Lorry, with Registration No. Kaduna MKA 54 XL, driven by one Shehu Hashim of Manigi in Niger State, conveying
about 200 suspected Almajiri at Kanbi/Oloru axis of Bode Sadu-Okoolowo express way.
On interrogation, they were said be coming from Funtua in Katsina State.<!--more-->

On the instruction of the Commissioner of Police, Cp Kayode Egbetokun, the Lorry and the 200 Almajiri youths were escorted by fully armed policemen to the border of Niger and Kwara State from where they will return to Katsina State they claimed they came from.

The Command wishes to use this opportunity to solicit the cooperation of inhabitants of border communities
in the State to always volunteer information on movements of vehicles/people on illegal routes traversing their communities, please.

Dsp Okasanmi Ajayi
Police Public Relations Officer
Kwara State Police Command
For: Commissioner of Police.