The cleric was also said to have posed a threat to the life of the pastor named Mike Davids.
The incident came three months after a police orderly of Abike Dabiri-Erewa fatally shot a teenager without provocation in a beer parlour in Apo-Dutse.
Effort is being intensified to re-arrest the fleeing suspects, Police said.
The Sahara Reporters’ publisher was exercising his rights to peaceful assembly with supporters when he was arrested by state agents on New Year’s Day.
The police said one of the casualties was a notorious gang leader.
This is part of the ongoing police reform to provide local solutions to local problems of crimes.
Mr. Adamu is in Katsina to charge his men in the wake of the kidnapping of 344 schoolboys in Kankara.
Nigerians online said the charges underscored bad faith negotiations on the part of the police and the Buhari administration at large.
Senators, House members and federal officials are also amongst those considered unworthy of police protection.
