Over the weekend, the FCT Police command, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army’s Guards Brigade special forces and DSS hunters, raided several known kidnappers’ hideouts, arresting four suspects.
Josephine Adeh, the FCT Police spokesperson and Superintendent of Police, announced this in a statement on Sunday.
She identified the hideouts as Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest in Kaduna state, near the FCT border.
The arrested suspects are Yahaya Abubakar, 25, from Mpape; Mohammed Mohamed, 32, from Zuba (an ex-convict); Umar Aliyu, 20; and Nura Abdullahi, 32, also an ex-convict from Kubwa and Zuba hills.
Ms. Adeh reported that the police, acting on reliable intelligence, stormed the kidnappers’ camps at around 10 a.m.
She added that the suspects have confessed to being part of a notorious bandit group known as “Mai One Million,” responsible for kidnappings and other crimes in the area.
“The suspects freely confessed to being members of a notorious bandit syndicate with the name ‘Mai One Million,’ responsible for series of kidnappings and other heinous crimes in FCT and its environs,” she said.
Ms Adeh also said some kidnapped victims were rescued while “the illegally erected structures by the kidnappers in all the patrolled camps were all decimated.”
