justicejay:
five-man kidnap syndicate has been nabbed
by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police
Command.
The police recovered N7m from the suspects –
Ifeanyi Paul, 34; Chukwuemeka Michael, 28;
Matthew Obi, 29; Husseini Abdullahi, 35; and
Musa Lawan, 27; who abducted a lady in the
Maitama area of Abuja, and held her hostage at
their hideout in a hotel in Sokoto State.
DAILY POST gathered that the suspects were
nabbed at a police checkpoint in Talata-Mafara,
Zamfara State, after a manhunt by operatives of
the FCT and Zamfara Police Commands.
Parading the suspects before newsmen on
Thursday, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP,
Mohammad Mustafa, said the suspects, after
successfully moving their victim to their hideout,
handed over her Toyota RAV 4 to another
suspect, who was said to have supplied the gang
with the rifle they used for the kidnap.
He said, “On July 27, 2016, the gang waylaid and
kidnapped a lady from Maitama in Abuja and
took her to a guest inn in Sokoto where she was
held hostage and locked up in a toilet.
“The culprits then contacted the victim’s family
and demanded N15m as ransom, which was
later reduced to N7m after much negotiation
with her family.
“While this was going on, a team of eagle-eyed
police detectives kept vigil as the suspects made
frantic efforts to pick up the ransom at a
location in Zamfara State.
“The suspects received N7m from the parents of
their victim as ransom.
“The ransom was a bait by the police to lure the
suspects out of their hideout,” the CP said,
adding that the victim was rescued at a
boundary between Zamfara and Sokoto states
after the suspects’ vehicle was involved in an
accident and the suspects abandoned it to
escape in another car.
But 34-year-old Paul denied the allegation.
The suspect said, “It was one Alhaji Usman, a
politician that invited us to come to Sokoto.
“He asked us to go and guard the lady, who had
already been kidnapped.
“Initially he invited us from Onitsha to come and
work for him and we thought it was a good job.
We didn’t know it was this kind of job. On our
way back, the police arrested the three of us.”
The CP further noted that the suspects would be
charged to court soon.

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