About 350 policemen have been deployed in Kogi State to assist the State Police Command in curbing crimes.
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, who ordered the deployment said it was part of measures to reduce crime and kidnapping to the barest minimum in the state.
Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, gave the figure while parading some robbery suspects at the State Command Headquarters in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
He also assured the people that the State Police Command would give its best to make the state crime-free.
Crime and kidnapping had been on the high side in Kogi State lately, stealing sleep from residents for fear of being robbed or kidnap.
In the last few months, some top government functionaries in the state, Chinese nationals, and American nationals have been kidnapped in the state. While some of them were released after payment of ransom others still under captivity.
However, Mr Ogunjemilusi noted that the recent deployment of the police was a welcomed development which had helped nabbed some robbers.
The police boss, while showing the reporters some of the suspects and the arms recovered, said that since their arrest, the rate of robbery in the highway along the affected routes across Kogi State had drastically reduced.
A 21 year old suspect, Muktari Egbunu, said he was arrested for burning down a transformer, stressing that he wanted to steal and sell the mercury in it.
Another suspect, Iliyasu Yahaya, who is a Fulani explained that the AK-47 rifle found with him was for a friend who kept it under his care.
With the deployment of the 350 policemen, it is hoped that crime would be reduced, as promise by the police authority.
