*Large cache
of weapons recovered from criminals
The Nigerian
police force has paraded a group of armed robbers and kidnappers who are
responsible for the abduction of Ambassador Bagudu Hirse and other high profile
personalities in Nigeria.
Police
spokesperson, Awunah Don , revealed to newsmen that the criminals were caught
after a series of investigations and tip-offs:
CASE I: ARREST
OF KIDNAPPERS, RECOVERY OF FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, MILITARY AND POLICE UNIFORMS
AND TWO OPERATIONAL VEHICLES OF THE KIDNAPPERS
SUSPECTS:
i. Dominic
Nwakpa aka Alhaji – Gang leader
ii. Ifeanyi
Chukwu ‘M’ – 2nd in command of the gang
iii. Balat
Paul ‘M’ 30 years – Driver of the gang – principal suspect.
iv. Ibrahim
Samuel aka IB ‘M’ 27 years – principal suspect.
v. Jatau Peter
‘M’ 29 years ( a dismissed Police man)
vi. Afini Paul
‘F’ Younger sister to the driver of the gang and also owner of the house where
kidnapped victims are kept.
vii. Clinton
Abere – a principal suspect
EXHIBITS:
i. Two (2)
English made Pump Action Guns
ii. One
hundred and thirty one (131) rounds of AK 47 ammunition
iii. Police
Camouflage uniform and two Military face caps
iv. Two (2)
Operational vehicles
v. One Hand
set phone – used for negotiation and collection of ransom.
vi. A red face
mask
vii. Anti Car
tracking device
viii. One (1)
black criminal charm jacket
On the 1st
January, 2017 at about 1130hrs operatives attached to the IGP Intelligence
Response Team (IRT) after a sustained surveillance, smashed the vicious and
very notorious kidnap for ransom gang that have been terrorizing Kaduna and
neighbouring States, responsible for the kidnap of several important
personalities in the recent past.
The gang was
smashed with the arrest of DOMINIC NWAKPA A.K.A ALHAJI, who is the gang leader,
in Lagos state, while four other principal suspects and members of the gang,
namely Balat Paul, driver of the gang, Ibrahim Samuel aka “IB” and Jatau Peter
– a dismissed Policeman were arrested on the 1st January, 2017 in their
hideouts at Dan Hassan Road Ungwa Boro Kaduna, while Afini Paul, a female
member who cooks for the gang and the victims, rented the house at Yusuf
Patrick close, Mararaba Rido, Kaduna where victims are kept before ransom money
is collected, was arrested at their hideout in Kaduna.
Ifeanyi Chukwu
the 2nd in command of the gang was arrested in a Hotel in Agbor Hill, area of
Abia State. He confessed to be the second in command of the gang that kidnapped
the Ambassador and so many other kidnappings within and outside Kaduna, Abia,
Imo, Rivers, and Delta States.
2. The
suspects upon interrogation volunteered confessional statements admitting that
they are the criminal gang that kidnapped the former Minister of State for
foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse on 20th November, 2016 in GRA, Kaduna
and collected ransom before he was released. The same gang confessed to the
kidnap of Dr. Abdulmalik Durunguwa and his wife in their residence at different
intervals in Kaduna. Ransom was also collected by the gang from the family of
the victims before they were released.
A Member of
Kaduna State House of Assembly Hon. Ibrahim Samaila was also kidnapped by the
gang on 26/8/2016 at Abakpa area of Kaduna State and an undisclosedd ransom
money was collected by the gang before his release.
On the 6th of
January, 2017 the last suspect Clinton Abere was trailed and arrested in a
Hotel in Lagos after jumping out of the window of his hotel room on sighting
the operatives of the IGP Intelligence Response team (IRT). He is currently
receiving treatment at Police Hospital from injury he sustained in the process
of attempting to escape arrest.
3. All the
seven (7) suspects while undergoing interrogation confessed and admitted to the
various criminal roles they played in the commission of the crimes. They will
be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.
4. CASE II:
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, ARMED ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS
AND AMMUNITION
SUSPECTS:
i. Maisamari
Dan Katsina ‘M’ gang leader
ii. Ex.Sgt
Bulus Jatau ‘M’ ( a Dismissed Police man)
EXHIBITS:
i. ONE (1)
Pump Action gun no. 40311
ii. Berretta
Pistol No. AO7184Z
iii. Four (4)
English Revolver pistols No. 72634, 25727, 9D09270 and G191X194
iv. Fifty (50)
rounds of 9mm live ammunition and one (1) expended
v. Thirty one
(31) live cartridges
vi. One (1)
fake firearm license
vii. One (1)
Golf car
viii. One (1)
Prado Jeep
ix. One (1)
Toyota cricket In Police custody in Kaduna State.
x. One (1)
Toyota corolla
xi. One (1)
set of camouflage Police uniform
On 1st
January, 2017 at about 0245hrs, working on actionable intelligence at the
disposal of the Nigeria Police Force indicating that a notorious kidnap for
ransom gang and armed robbers who have been on the wanted list of the Police
for several kidnappings, armed robberies and other violent crimes within Kaduna
and its neighbouring States were in the process of unleashing terror on
innocent residents of Kujama village in Kajuru LGA in Kaduna state, the
Operatives of IGP’s Special Tactical Squad swung into action and arrested the
mentioned suspects.
On the spot
search was conducted at their criminal hide out and the above listed exhibits
were recovered in their possession. The suspects have volunteered confessional
statements to Police admitting to the various roles they played in the
commission of several kidnappings and armed robbery attacks in Kaduna and other
neighbouring states. Effort is being intensified to arrest the remaining
members of this notorious gang at large. They will be charged to court on
completion of investigation.
5. The IGP is
hereby assuring all Nigerians of adequate security and commitment of the
Nigeria Police Force to work assiduously to further reduce the rate of crime
and criminality across the Country, especially kidnap for ransom and other
violent crimes. He urges Nigerians to always be law abiding, volunteer useful
information to the Police in their localities and see themselves as
stakeholders with the Force in making the country safer.
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