Kano State Police Command’s interception of a total of 3700 pieces of electronic denotators and six rolls of detonating codes in two separate operations in the state, has heightened uncertainties in the predominantly Muslim State and across much of Northern Nigeria over the plots of Muslim fundamentalists – the Islamists – against the nation’s defenceless population.
A statement issued last night – Thursday, January 15 -by the Police Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the interception took place at Fagge and Gwale LGAs of the State.
According to him, the first operation happened on the 13/01/2026, when police officers attached to Rijiyar Lemo Police Division executed a search warrant at a residence in Tudun Bojuwa Quarters, Fagge LGA, and discovered two big sacks containing suspected incriminating materials.
“A team of experts from the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) conducted recognition and identification of the suspected materials.
“One of the sacks was discovered to contain six rolls of detonating codes while the other contained 20 parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Cannabis Sativa, and 220 sachets of suspected Exol tablets; investigation is in progress,” the police said in the statement.
“In the second operation, a team of Police Officers attached to Anti-Daba Unit of the Command while on intelligence-led surveillance patrol, Intercepted a tricycle rider at Sani Mainagge Quarters, Gwale LGA, with three bags containing suspected heavy materials.
“A team of experts from the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) conducted recognition and identification of the suspected materials, where electric detonators numbering 3,700 pieces were discovered.
“The commercial tricycle rider led to the arrest of a suspect, identified as Ibrahim Garba, aka ‘Manyan Baki’, aged 49 years, of Zamfara State, and confessed to facilitating the movement of the materials from Nasarawa State en route to other places.
“Investigation is in progress.”
The Commissioner of Police, commended the officers involved in the operations and urged the public to remain vigilant and continue to report any suspicious movement, items, or activities to the nearest Police Station.
The police did not say where the deadly devices were headed or whether they were, in fact, meant for suspected acts of violence in Kano.
But security experts have interpreted the Zamfara man’s connection in the illegal arms movement to Kano as a decoy, explaining that the deadly weapons would later have been moved to Zamfara where they were likely to have been handed over to the terrorists operating in the Zamfara axis of Muslim North, had the interception not taken place.
