The Bauchi State Police Command has uncovered an illegal fertiliser production operation and arrested five suspects in connection with the activity.
Spokesperson of the command, CSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, said various production machinery and adulterated fertiliser products were recovered from the scene.
“On 10 May 2025, at about 1300 hours, operatives of the Command’s Monitoring Unit acted promptly based on intelligence received from a reliable source. They detained Muhammad Abubakar, accused of producing adulterated herbicides at his residence in the Magaji Quarters of Bauchi,” the statement read.
“The suspect was traced down and captured in the market while possessing six bags of suspected adulterated fertiliser and forty-six bottles of adulterated herbicides.
“A subsequent search warrant executed at his residence yielded several incriminating items, including: thirty-eight empty cartons of assorted herbicides, fourteen NPK sacks, nine Indorama sacks, one empty jerrycan, five spoons, charcoal stoves, a bundle of nylon and sacks containing Ztars and lambda powder.
