42 suspects in custody as FCT Police arrest kidnappers, traffic robbers, others in Abuja

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police bid person arrested astatine slightest 42 suspects for their engagement successful assorted crimes wrong the city.

The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, CP Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi, disclosed the palmy cognition during a property briefing astatine the command’s office on Wednesday.

The CP explained that connected August 14, 2026, the bid received a distress telephone reporting the suspected kidnap of 3 persons from their residence successful Nyanya Area of the FCT.

He said pursuing the report, unit of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit Team 1 were instantly deployed to the scene.

The CP said investigations revealed that the victims were taken to the “New-Nyanya Area of Nasarawa State wherever they were kept hostage by their abductors”.

He noted that with the assistance of quality from a good meaning nonmigratory of the territory, officers of the bid trailed and arrested 2 suspects identified arsenic Godwin Afekhide and Aaron Ogbu.

According to the CP, the 2 suspects “were straight linked to the kidnapping of the victims. All 3 victims were rescued unharmed and reunited with their family”.

Similarly, astir 10 suspected postulation robbers, who usually disguise themselves arsenic hawkers on congested roads and traf...