By Gbemiga Olamikan.
The Police Special Intervention Squad which is the combination of the Department of Force Intelligence – Intelligence Response Team (DFI-IRT), FCT Command Anti-Violent Crimes Section, Anti-kidnapping Section and other State Commands have successfully apprehended sixteen (16) notorious criminals and recovered significant arms and ammunition which includes a general purpose machine gun (GPMG). This is coming as inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun moves towards fortifying security landscape of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with collaborative efforts.
This was disclosed in a parade of suspect led by Force Public Relation Office ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in Abuja. He revealed that three (3) Bwari-based kidnappers namely, Idris Ishaku, male, 27 years, Bala Umar, 27 years, and Dahiru Salisu, 27 years Male, have been responsible for series of armed robbery cases and kidnappings in Bwari Local Government Area and other parts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Also disclosed that the combined team of operatives arrested thirteen (13) suspects for various other crimes and foiled another kidnap plot through technical intelligence which resulted to the arrest of the above-named Bwari-based kidnappers, and weapons recovered from them.
However ACP Adejobi briefed that following a report on the abduction of a victim from his house along with his Hilux Van with Reg. No. RBC 90 DL Gray colour by four armed men who disguised in a white Mercedez Benz 230 car, Police Operatives in an intelligence propelled investigation discovered that the victim was being taken to Kano State, but was dispossessed of his ATM cards at Kaduna while the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000) was transferred from his account.
Adejobi said, the suspects however ran out of luck as they were intercepted by Police operatives at a filling station in Kaduna where three of them escaped, while one by the name Chinaza Philip Okoye Michael was arrested, the victim rescued unhurt, and the said Hilux Van recovered. It was discovered that Chinaza Philip Okoye Michael and his accomplices had earlier been arrested sometime in November 2023 and charged for similar offences, at the High Court, Kwali, Abuja, but went back to commit even worse crimes while on court bail.
Also, operatives of the DFI-IRT office intercepted one Everest Magaji, a gunrunner, during negotiation with some notorious bandits who are currently at large, for the purchase and supply of illicit firearms and ammunition. Eleven (11) Pistols and Two (2) Pump Action Guns were recovered from the suspect.
