Police nab Abuja kidnap kingpin after Wike’s N20m bounty

Police nab Abuja kidnap kingpin after Wike’s N20m bounty

Police operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command attached to the Anti-kidnapping unit have raided two kidnappers’ camps bordering Nasarawa and Abuja via Kuje area council and arrested one Saidu Abdulkadir popularly known as Dahiru Adamu.

He was arrested at about 12 am on Thursday.

Abdulkadir is the alleged gang leader and one of the wanted suspects of the kidnapping syndicate paraded by the Police Command on Wednesday.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had announced a N20 million bounty on two criminals terrorising residents of the territory, dead or alive.

Wike said this while speaking at the Police Command in FCT, where 15 arrested suspected kidnappers and one chance rubbers were paraded.

The bounty was in response to the Police Commissioner’s remarks that two other criminals were still on the run, adding that the police were on their trail.

According to a statement issued on Friday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, the bandits, on sighting the police operatives, opened fire and engaged the police in an intense gun duel but were eventually overpowered by the police, as one Habu Yakubu and Isufu Abubakar, earlier abducted from Kwaita village via Pegi District of Kuje area council, were rescued unhurt and the suspect arrested.

Adeh said: “Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect masterminded the kidnap and killing of one Mr Sunday Yahaya Zakwai, the district head of Ketti village.

“While effort is still on to apprehend the other wanted suspects on the run, the Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh psc, mni, wishes to reassure criminals in the FCT that there is no hiding place for them.

“He equally urges residents to report suspicious activities through the following emergency lines: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, and 08028940883; PCB: 09022222352″.