Police Command in Niger State has announced the arrest of twenty-one suspected cattle rustlers and kidnappers terrorising residents across state.

The command also recovered four hundred and seventy-seven cattle, ninety sheeps and various dangerous weapons from the suspects.

Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkalla, said the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed, assuring residents that the command was adopting proactive measures to end the activities of cattle rustling, kidnapping and other forms of criminal activities in the state.

Elkalla, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the command was not aware of any attack by members of Boko Horam sect in any part of the state, saying the report was not only false but malicious and calculated at causing fear and panic among the peace loving people of Niger State.

According to Elkalla, the report is clearly a fiction emanating from the writers imagination, saying for the avoidance of doubt, the state is among the few states in the country that has conquered cattle rustling, kidnapping and armed banditry.

He said it was on record that within the past few months, the command, in its aggressive operations arrested over forty armed bandits and recovered over one thousand cattle and various types of assorted weapons, saying in Rafi LGA alone, being a boundary community with Kaduna state, Zamfara and Kebbi states, the command has over five hundred mobile policemen and special anti-robbery squads patrolling the villages.

Elkalla enjoined members of the public to remain calm and go about their lawful businesses, saying the command had put in place sensitive security measures to guarantee adequate protection of lives and properties of the people.

The spokesman urged political office holders to refrain from statements capable of truncating the long enjoyed peace in the state, advising journalists to verify their reports in order to adequately inform the public.