Police nab 3 suspected kidnappers, others in Abuja

Three suspected kidnappers terrorizing Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been arrested.

The police named the suspects as Idris Ishiaku, aka Yellow; Bala Umar; and Dahiru Salisu.

The trio were among the 16 criminal suspects paraded yesterday in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi.

According to the Force spokesman, the kidnapping gang was apprehended following the deployment of technology, which was used to intercept a call by Yellow informing his gang that they had successfully kidnapped a wealthy civil servant.

Yellow, during the telephone conversation, told his gang members that the civil servant should not be let go unless the family pays the sum of N50 million as ransom.

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Asked where he came from and his job, Yellow said he hails from Kaduna but rented a house in Bwari, where he works as a security guard and does farming.

Adejobi advised residents of the FCT to be mindful of the persons they employ as security guards or housekeepers, noting that many of them have questionable characters while others are there to carry out surveillance for criminal gangs.

“Always get information about somebody before renting your house out or employing people as security guards. Contact the police and get the profiles of those you want to employ. We should be vigilant and more careful,” he said.

On the arrest of Chinaza Philips in Kaduna and his handover to the FCT Command, the FPRO said the police did not kill the notorious kidnapper to hide information about his other gang members as being insinuated.