Police foil kidnap plot, arrest three suspects in Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State Police Command has foiled a planned kidnapping successful Karu Local Government Area and arrested 3 suspects allegedly linked to the plot, successful what authorities described arsenic a large breakthrough successful efforts to curb transgression enactment successful the state.

According to the Command’s spokesperson, SP Ramhan Nansel, the cognition followed a ailment lodged with the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, aft unidentified persons allegedly threatened to abduct an agribusiness-woman and her children unless a ransom of N5 cardinal was paid.

Police said the menace was reported connected April 31, 2026, prompting contiguous enactment by the Command.

In response, the Commissioner of Police successful Nasarawa State, CP Shetima Jauro Mohamed, ordered what the Command described arsenic a “comprehensive investigation” to forestall the abduction and bring those liable to justice.

Acting connected the directive, operatives launched an intelligence-led cognition that led to the apprehension of 2 archetypal suspects identified arsenic Prince Eze, 19, and Marwan Salihu, 18, some residents of Agada Village successful Karu Local Government ...