Police kill three kidnap kingpins in Abuja shootout, rescue victims

…Arrest robbery, cause suspects; retrieve arms, stolen vehicles

By Kingsley Omonobi

ABUJA — Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command person killed 3 notorious kidnapping kingpins successful a weapon battle, rescued kidnap victims, and recorded large breakthroughs against robbery and cause syndicates successful Abuja.

Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, CP Ajao Adewale, disclosed this connected Friday portion briefing journalists astatine the Command headquarters, describing the operations arsenic impervious of the police’s resilience, beardown inter-agency collaboration, and residents’ support.

On September 18, operatives stormed a kidnappers’ hideout successful Zinda Forest, adjacent the Nigerian Army Estate, Kurudu, engaging the pack successful a fierce shootout. The pack leader, Abdullahi Umar (alias Duna), and his lieutenants, Buba Ahmadi (Killer) and Habi Sule (Mai-Kudi), were killed.

Recovered items included 2 AK-49 rifles, 2 magazines with 7 rounds of ammunition, ATM cards, phones, charms, and ₦10,000 cash. Investigations revealed the pack was down aggregate abductions successful Guzape, Karu, Kurudu, and Nasarawa. Their program to abduct a nonmigratory of Federal Housing Estate, Karu, was foiled by the raid.

CP Adewale besides recounted how, connected September 15, gunmen attacked Kpobi and Kpaduma 3 villages successful Guzape, sidesplitting 1 vigilante, Bako Pwaza, and injuring 2 others, but failed to abduct 2 women aft a swift constabulary response. On September 17, the pack abducted Nafiu Idris, a unit of the FCTA Department of Urban Affairs, but associated information forces tracked and disrupted the criminals’ operations.

The Command besides arrested 11 suspected cause dealers successful raids crossed Abuja, recovering 68 bags of cannabis and different narcotics.

In anti-robbery operations, constabulary apprehended 3 “one-chance” operators — Ahmed Mohammed, Ashafa Ali, and Mohammed Lamido Jabir — who robbed a victim, Mr. Kelvin Okorie, of ₦2.7 cardinal successful April. Three vehicles and stolen items linked to the pack were recovered.

Across different operations, constabulary seized 7 firearms, 18 stolen cars and trucks, and arrested 9 suspects for conveyance theft.

Paying tribute to fallen operatives, CP Adewale mourned vigilante Bako Pwaza, calling him “a leader who paid the eventual terms successful the work of his community.”

He assured residents that intelligence-driven patrols and associated operations with the military, DSS, hunters, and vigilantes volition proceed to dislodge transgression camps.

“Policing is astir effectual erstwhile communities spouse with instrumentality enforcement. We cannot and volition not let the reckless acts of a fewer to endanger the safety, dignity, and well-being of millions of residents and visitors successful the FCT,” Adewale said.

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