DSS ARREST KIDNAPPERS THAT RECEIVED N150M FROM THREE KIDNAPPED AUSTRALIANS

The DSS has arrested one Samuel Asuquo, a kidnap kingpin, who was the mastermind of the kidnap of three Australian staff of Lafarge Cement Company, for which his gang received ransom of N150 million at Nasarawa Bakoko village in Cross River State.

Similarly, on August, 30, 2016, the trio of Bamaiyi Mustapha (aka Dan Borno), Aminu Isa and Hassan Shehu, members of a notorious kidnap gang operating around the Abuja-Kaduna axis, were arrestedA at Lafia, Nasarawa State.

The gang had earlier kidnapped five  Igbo women and collected the sum of N13, 000, 000. 00 as ransom. They were subsequently arrested by the service while planning a high profile kidnap in Abuja.

In another operation carried out same day at Tamburawa village along Kano-Zaria Expressway, Kano State, Alhassan Musa and Ado Yusuf, members of a notorious kidnap/armed robbery syndicate operating from Falgore forest in Doguwa LGA, Kano State, were also apprehended.