Police have arrested eight notorious kidnappers, who have been terrorising residents of Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Delta and Kaduna states. According to a reliable source, the suspects were arrested by a special squad attached to the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
Those arrested are identified as Sani Husseini (50), a gang leader; Musa Yahaya (27) aka Borgujo, also a gang leader; Idris Sani (28); Murtala Ishiaka (28); Ejima Ibrahim (19); Abdulrahman Sani (23) aka Soldier; Abubakar Ahmed (34) aka INTERPOL and Abdulmumini Onoima aka Gagambo.
The police source said the arrest started after a series of intelligence gathering of the activities of kidnappers in Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Delta and Kaduna states. The source added that the kidnappers used to operate in Lokoja, Okene, Kabba, Obajana and other areas in the aforementioned states.
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, who had been monitoring the activities of kidnappers in each of these states, was said to have drafted teams of police from Force Headquarters and ordered them to comb the states.
It was gathered that the policemen started picking up the suspects after three weeks of tracking them. It was also gathered that during interrogation, the suspects confessed to have been operating within Kogi, Edo, Delta, Ondo and Kaduna states.
