The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has apprehended four suspected criminals who terrorized the territory with kidnappings and killings. The suspects confessed to planning attacks on government institutions and estates, as well as killing seven kidnap victims. The police recovered weapons from their hideouts.
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command have arrested four criminal elements terrorizing the territory. A statement on Thursday by the command's spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh said the suspects are notorious kidnappers responsible for several killings and kidnappings in the nation's capital.
Giwa, Kabiru Mohammed, and Yusuf Hassan. She said they were arrested at their criminal hideout in Sauka, Abuja 'living within the general population'. The suspects also confessed to being responsible for the killing of seven kidnap victims in the territory. 'These gangs have attacked Dakwa, Dawaki, Aco estate, Dupe Village, Zuma Rock, Kuchiko village and some villages in Niger and Kaduna', she said.
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