Men of the NIgeria Police Force
A three-member gang of kidnappers has been arrested by the Police in Zamfara State.
The kidnappers were arrested along Sokoto/Gusau road.
According to Leadership, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Adaji
Adejo, while parading the suspects at the state command, yesterday, said
one Ngozi Dabiri, a youth corps member, from Delta State serving in
Abuja, was robbed in Maitama district by the suspected armed robbers,
who stopped her at gun point and robbed her of her vehicle and also
kidnapped her.
Leadership reports that he said his command swung into action and
following a tip-off and succeeded in rounding up the three-man gang,
while trying to escape from Sokoto to Gusau.
Mr Adejo further explainsed that three suspects arrested in the
operation were Ifeanyi Paul of Awka Anambra State, Echo Chukwuenmeka
from Enugu State and Mathew Obi also from Awka Anambra State and had
confessed to having committed the offence.
He said the gang specialised in armed robbery and kidnapping, and had been terrorising Abuja and parts of its environs.
The commissioner disclosed that the suspects had confessed to
having committed the offence and mentioned names of other members now at
large, including one Alhaji Usman Arugungu and his brother Danladi
Arugungu.
Also arrested in connection to the crime were one Hussain Abdullahi
and Musa Lawal of Tudun Wada area Zaria, who were among the drivers
conveying the suspects at the time of the arrest.
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