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Cooperate With Kidnappers For Your Safety – Frank Mba, Police PRO Tells Nigerians
The Police Excessive Command on Tuesday counselled members of the general public to cooperate with kidnappers in the event that they fall sufferer for their very own security and to keep away from being killed.
The Drive Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Frank Mba, a Commissioner of Police, gave the recommendation in Abuja whereas parading 48 suspected excessive tech criminals together with one 25-year-old Haliru Mohammed who masterminded the kidnap of his cousin, one Binta, for ransom when he couldn’t repay a mortgage from her.
CP Mba within the firm of the Commander of Police, Police Intelligence Response Workforce (Police-IRT), instructed newsmen that the operatives of the Police-IRT led by DCP Olatunji Disu rounded up the suspects throughout completely different areas within the nation following credible tip-offs.
This got here as one of many paraded suspects pleaded along with his comrades on the planet of crime to repent and depart the unproductive occupation in their very own curiosity.
The suspects had been paraded for prison actions together with kidnapping, culpable murder, armed theft, automotive theft, unlawful possession of firearms and burglary amongst others on the IRT workplace in Guzape, Abuja.
Throughout the parade, Mba suggested the members of the general public particularly kidnap victims to not wrestle with the abductors, however to cooperate in order to be rescued by Police and different safety forces who had been all the time on the alert to fight the criminals.
Mba instructed newsmen that Abubakar Harilu, 36, was nabbed by the IRT for kidnapping one Binta Mohammed, 48, a cousin of his who gave him a mortgage for the acquisition of tricycles.
The suspect reportedly lured Binta to the abductors’ den and instructed them to extort cash and kill her after he did not repay the mortgage she gave him.
In keeping with Mba, fortuitously for her, she escaped from the abductors of their hideout in Jigawa on the primary day however landed within the den of different kidnappers however was in a position to make contact with the IRT Police staff which led to
the arrest of the suspect.
The Police additionally paraded two different kidnappers Salisu Abdullahi 28, and Babangida Usman 21 who had been stated to belong to a really depraved and infamous kidnap gang that kidnapped a professor at ATBU Bauchi and one proprietor of a filling station in Kaduna State.
The identical prison gang group was additionally paraded for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Rev Fr Tony Bawa who was later launched by the gang, amongst different crimes allegedly dedicated by them.
The police paraded three armed theft suspects Abel Namfa, 23, Nankum Wasiu 32 and Jonah Patrick 25, who had been in Jos for robbing a person of his Toyota Corolla automotive and bought it to acquire ammunitions for prison actions.
Some displays recovered from the suspects embrace one GPMG, three AK-47 rifles, 10 laptop computer computer systems and another arms and dwell ammunition.
The Drive image-maker famous that the majority victims of kidnap had been individuals associated to their captors.
He assured that the police and different safety businesses weren’t relenting on closing in on these criminally-minded individuals.
Mba assured that each one the suspects could be charged to the courts after the conclusion of the continuing investigations.
