The Nation Newspaper Two ex-convicts, other kidnap- suspects held in Abuja
The suspects were nabbed by the FCT Police in synergy with the special forces of Guards Brigade and Department of State Service , hunters, in a continued effort against criminality in the Territory.
According to a statement yesterday, FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, said men of the FCT Police Command, acting on credible intelligence, stormed some identified kidnapper’s camps at Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest, Kaduna State, bordering FCT, trailed and arrested the four suspects, whose names were withheld, but their ages put at between 20 and 35 years.
Adeh said: “The suspects freely confessed to being members of a notorious bandit syndicate with the name ‘Mai One Million’, responsible for a series of kidnappings and other heinous crimes in FCT and its environs.”Another journalist arrested in Abuja She said the operation resulted in a shootout between the bandits and the security operatives; a development that forced the suspects to scamper to safety and victims rescued, adding: “The illegally erected structures by the kidnappers in all the patrolled camps, were all decimated.
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