The FCT Police Command said it has arrested two suspected kidnappers and recovered exhibits from them.
The Commissioner of Police (CP), Benneth Igweh, who disclosed this to newsmen during the parade of the suspects, said they were arrested following credible intelligence information that they were planning to kidnap a clergyman and an estate developer last Friday in Abuja.
He said police detectives from the Lubge Division swung into action and arrested Samson Zach at the Rehab Estate and Ademola Ajala at Zone 9, Lugbe.
He said the suspects confessed during interrogation to belong to a gang of eight notorious kidnappers responsible for a series of kidnappings within the FCT and its environs.
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He further said the suspects also confessed to be the ones that led every ransom negotiation with the families of any abducted victim in the territory.
The CP added that some of the exhibits were a Toyota Camry with registration number: KSF 412 HT; a network jammer; a pair of National Assembly number plates; seven SIM cards, six phones, car spare keys and quantities of substances suspected to be hemp.
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