The FCT police commissioner, CP Olatunji Disu, who disclosed
this while parading the suspects at the command in Abuja on Monday, said the
suspects were arrested following a raid on the kidnappers’ hideout at Kweri
forest that borders Kaduna and the FCT.
Disu said the suspects were responsible for various armed
robbery/kidnappings as well as attacks on pastors’ quarters belonging to ECWA
church in Dnapoyi village in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, Mpape village,
Daupe village.
He gave the names of the suspects as Hussaini Adamu, Yau
Adamu and Aminu Adamu, saying the suspects were led by their gang leader, Gwan
Umar, which he said is based in the forest in Kaduna State.
He said the suspects had confessed to killing of one Comfort
Oyanga adding that Felix Sanyo and Julius Oyanga were abducted at Daupe in Tafa
LGA of Niger State, while a sum of N80 million ransom was paid by the victims’
family.
According to him, the suspects also collectively kidnapped
one Dimas Maisamari in Mpape, FCT alongside some victims, which he said were
all taken to Kaduna forest.
He said the suspects collected a ransom running into millions
of naira from families of the victims, even as he said efforts were ongoing to
trace and arrest other wanted kidnappers on the command’s list.
The police commissioner said exhibits recovered included two
AK 47 rifles, 85 rounds of live 7.62 ammunition 3 AK 47 magazines and one
locally-made gun.
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