On Friday, the Adamawa Police Command said that its agents had detained five alleged kidnappers.
It added that the operatives had taken money from the accused totaling 4,079,000 Naira.
This was stated in a statement released on Friday by Adamawa State Police Public Relations Officer SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje.
The statement claims that on September 10, 2022, the command’s agents cut off a criminal network linking the Five in the Mubi North and South Local Government Areas.
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According to the allegation, the operators brought 8-year-old Mustapha Aliyu Fadil to the Barassa Hotel in Maraba Mubi after receiving a complaint of his kidnapping in Mubi.
He claimed that as soon as the operation, which was carried out by the command’s operatives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB), produced promising results, the command mobilised officers and troops.
He claimed that of the five million naira paid as ransom, the value of four million seventy nine thousand naira in cash was retrieved.
He listed the individuals who had been captured as Zaiyat Adamu, 19, Abdulrahman Abubakar, 31, Haruna Yakubu, Abubakar Muhammed, 20, and Isa Musa, 21.
According to him, the suspects planned their scheme and abducted the victim, holding him for two days until they received the promised ransom of $5 million, at which point they released their hostage.
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He claims that the police commissioner, SK Akande, praised the officers and men for disrupting the criminal network by acting professionally, but also gave them instructions to keep up the pace in order to checkmate crime and criminals in and around the state.
According to him, “the CP urges on the people to always alert the police on the whereabouts of Criminals and their hideouts, and especially those with doubtful character.”
