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Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command person arrested six suspected members of a notorious kidnapping syndicate and recovered the N8.25 cardinal ransom allegedly paid by the household of 1 of their victims.
The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi, disclosed the breakthrough during a property briefing successful Abuja on Tuesday.
Sanusi said the bid received a distress telephone connected June 29, 2026, reporting the abduction of a young pistillate successful the Maitama country of Abuja.
He explained that pursuing the report, a squad from the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit was instantly deployed to way the kidnappers.
According to the CP, the suspects aboriginal contacted the victim’s household and demanded a ransom of N20 cardinal for her release.
“Unknown to the suspects, we were already blistery connected their trail. Our integer tracking revealed that they had taken the unfortunate retired of the FCT and kept her successful Kwan-Kwashe Village, a distant colony successful Niger State,” helium said.
Sanusi noted that though the suspects yet collected N8.25 cardinal from the victim’s household earlier releasing her connected July 3, constabulary operatives sustain...
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