Crime

Notorious kidnapper Nabbed in Nasarawa

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The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested a suspected notorious kidnapper, Shuaibu Mohammed, also known as Chiyawa, who had been involved in several kidnapping cases in the state.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, made the disclosure at the command’s headquarters in Lafia on Thursday while parading 23 other suspects who were arrested for various crimes across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state.

He commended the police officers attached to the Anti-Kidnapping unit of the command, led by SP Lapshak Lenka, for working tirelessly to arrest the suspected kidnap kingpin.

While reiterating the command’s commitment to eradicating crime in the 13 LGAs, Nansel said the police command would not hesitate to arrest anyone who disturbs the peace of other residents of the state.

He said, “On 19/4/2023 at about 5 pm, and based on a tip-off, operatives of the Command’s Anti-kidnapping unit arrested a kidnap kingpin named Shuaibu Mohammed AKA Chiyawa ‘M’ of Kadarko, Giza Development Area.

“The suspect who investigation has shown to be the gang leader of a notorious kidnapping syndicate terrorizing Dadere, Mararaba Akunza, Lafia, Agyaragu, Kadarko, and environs, has been on the wanted list of the Command for various cases of kidnapping and has been evading arrest before nemesis caught up with him.”

Similarly, the state police command also paraded two suspected criminals who had been involved in issues relating to kidnapping and armed robbery in the Lafia Local Government Area of the state.

Speaking on the arrest of the suspects, the Police PPRO said, “Recently, while acting based on credible intelligence, one Adamu Gagare Sule ‘M’ 25years and Umar Idris 20years, who have been on the wanted list of the command for offences of kidnapping were arrested at Kiguna Village, Lafia East Development area by operatives of the command.

“Upon Interrogation, the suspects confessed to having kidnapped four people and took them to a forest reserve in Qua’anpan LGA of Plateau State and came to town to buy food for the victims held captive before luck ran out of them.

“Also, the suspects admitted to have engaged in various acts of kidnapping and armed robbery at Lafia East, Awe, and Jenkwe Development area of Obi LGA.”

While warning all criminal elements to leave the state without further delay, DSP Nansel said the Commissioner of Police, CP Maiyaki Baba, had directed that the suspects be charged to court at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Lafia.

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Crime

27-Year-Old Woman in Police Net for Serial Kidnapping

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Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Mariam Ayila for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, Sofiat Yusau in the Ota area of the state.

The suspect was arrested after one Ismail Yusau reported at the Agbara Divisional Headquarters that his daughter who he sent on an errand had not returned home.

He told policemen that he received a strange call some hours after from an unknown person, who told him that his daughter had been kidnapped and that if he failed to send the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand as ransom, he would not set his eyes on the girl again. 

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi said in a statement in Abeokuta that the suspect was arrested at her hideout in the Atan-Ota area, and the little girl was rescued unhurt.

Mr Oyeyemi explained that preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect had earlier kidnapped another young girl in the Itele-Ota area on the 19th of December 2022, and ransom was paid to her before she released her victim. 

He said the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Lanre Bankole, had directed that the suspect be handed over to the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Olusegun Folarin

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Police Arrest Rivers ‘Most Wanted’ Kidnapper

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Honest Diigbara, (aka ‘Boboski ) a wanted notorious kidnapper has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command on Saturday

The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Joseph Mukan who paraded the suspect at the weekend, said he was arrested early hours of Saturday following a tip off.

He has been on the wanted list of the state security watch, even as the state governor Nyesom Wike places N30M million bounty on him.

Speaking during the parade, Mukan said the police with the help of vigilante group stormed the criminal’s hideout in a community in Tai Local government area of the state, where he engaged in a duel gun battle with the police, leading to the death of some of his men, including his driver

The CP said, “acting on credible intelligence, the police in a combined operation with local vigilante stormed the hideout of the kidnapper at Korokoro community in Tai Local Government and on sighting the security agencies the wanted kidnapper opened fire and in exchange of gunfire his driver was fatally injured while Boboski was arrested.

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Crime

Police Kill Kidnapper, Rescue Youth Corps Member

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Operatives of Nigeria Police, Ogun State Command have rescued a youth corps member identified as Okoroji Agnes attached to Federal Girls College Sagamu and one Tawa Sosanwo from suspected kidnappers along Shagamu–Ijebu Ode road.

The state’s Police Public Relations officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi said in a statement in Abeokuta that one of the suspected kidnappers was shot dead.

Mr Oyeyemi pointed out the two rescued victims claimed that they were kidnapped at various locations by the hoodlums, who took them to unknown destinations before police intercepted them on the road.

The spokesman of the state police command explained that the suspected kidnappers were intercepted along Shagamu–Ijebu Ode road by the patrol team led by the Divisional Police Officer, Shagamu, Okiki Agunbiade.

Mr Oyeyemi said suspected kidnappers engaged the police in gun battle where one of the kidnappers was shot dead while others escaped with gunshot injuries.

Items recovered, according to the police included an operational car, one black toy gun, one gold wrist watch, phone, one cutlass, and one black wrist watch.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson assured the members of the public that the fleeing members of the gang would be hunted and arrested within the shortest possible time

Olusegun Folarin