Police arrest 52-year-old spiritualist, four others over Edo kidnapping

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command person arrested a 52-year-old Islamic spiritualist, identified arsenic Jubril Ibrahim, and 4 others implicit alleged engagement successful kidnapping.

DAILY POST reports that the spiritualist and the different suspects, identified arsenic Ahmadu Suleiman, Mohammed Abubakar, Tukur Adam a.k.a. Dogo, Musa Ibrahim and Iro Ibrahim, were arrested connected August 30, 2026, successful Niger State.

The Commissioner of Police, CP, successful complaint of the Command, Patrick Daaor, disclosed this portion parading suspects arrested for assorted crimes crossed the state.

Daaor alleged that the suspects had been terrorising parts of Edo North Senatorial District, peculiarly the Auchi, Jattu and Okpella axis.

The CP alleged that the spiritualist specialised successful preparing charms for the suspected kidnappers.

According to him, the apprehension of the suspects followed the abduction of 1 Mohammed Tasiu Imokhe and his woman astatine Jattu, successful Etsako West Local Government Area, connected August 8, 2026.

The constabulary commissioner stated that pursuing the reports of the development, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and Violent Crime Response Unit instantly swung into action, leveraging method and actionable quality from the Technical Intelligence Unit, TIU, Abuja.

“This led to the apprehension of Malam Jibril Ibrahim, Mohammed Abubakar, Tukur Adam ...