The five kidnappers who kidnapped Governor Yahaya bello's mother
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former Councillor and four other deadly kidnappers have been arrested
by men of the Nigerian police for abducting the mother of Governor Bello
of Kogi State.
The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday said it had arrested five
suspects in connection with the kidnapping of Gov. Yahaya Bello’s mother
in May 2014.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Hajia Hawawu Bello,
80, mother of Gov. Bello, the then Managing Director of Fair Plus
Transport Services, was kidnapped in Uvete, Adavi Local Government Area
of Kogi, on May 29 2014.
The suspects are: Iliyasu Suleiman, 44, former Councillor and gang
leader, Danjuma Ibrahim, 26, Iliyasu Obadaki, 35, Alhaji Nasiru, 43, and
Hafiz Yakubu.
The Force Spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, disclosed this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
Moshood said that items recovered from the suspects include: two AK
47 rifles; 20 live cartridges; one army camouflage inner wear; two army
camouflage pair of trousers and two army camouflage caps.
Others are; one black Beretta; two plastic guns; three sharp knives and one axe.
He said that all the suspects had confessed to the kidnapping of
the governor’s mother and other robberies in FCT, Kogi and Niger.
The Force spokesman said that efforts were being intensified to
arrest other fleeing members of the gang while the suspects would be
charged to court on completion of investigation.
He enjoined members of the public to cooperate with the Police to
prevent crime and criminality in their localities. In a related
development, Moshood said the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim
Idris, had deployed a joint police team to the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
He said the team comprised Special Police force, Mobile Force,
Counter Terrorism Squad, the Force Intelligence Team with its
headquarters at Rijanah, Kaduna State.
He said that the team was under specific mandate to root out the
kidnap for ransom gangs and armed robbery gangs terrorising the route.
Moshood said that the operation was to compliment and augment the ongoing Jont Police/Military operations on ground before now.
“The police personnel will be proactive and work on actionable
intelligence at the disposal of the force and carry out massive
deployment,” he said.
He said that Idris urged members of the public, especially
commuters and people in towns and villages along the road to assist and
cooperate with the police.
NAN reports that the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge
of operation, Mr Hyacinth Dagala, has been mandated to supervise the
operation.
-NAN
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