The Nigerian Police have recorded
some achievements in tackling
crimes across the Country.
In a
coordinated operation based on intelligence gathered and painstaking
surveillance of notorious kidnap for ransom criminal gangs in Kaduna and other
contiguous States, the IRT, in a single swoop cracked a criminal gang of
vicious kidnappers and arrested all the members of the gang, who are now in
Police custody and undergoing investigation to ensure that they are brought to
justice.
Those
arrested are:
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 recovered from
them are
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.
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.
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.
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