{"id":98712,"date":"2022-08-29T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98712"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:52:09","slug":"police-arrest-bandits-informants-over-lawmaker-familys-kidnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/police-arrest-bandits-informants-over-lawmaker-familys-kidnap\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest bandits\u2019 informants over lawmaker family\u2019s kidnap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested three informants to a kidnap for ransom syndicate who kidnapped the wife and two children of a serving lawmaker, Hon. Dr Ibrahim Aminu, in Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cActing on credible information, operatives of the IRT have arrested a deadly kidnap for ransom syndicate who kidnapped the wife and two children of a serving lawmaker Honourable Ibrahim Aminu in Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSequel to the intelligence reports on the activities of the deadly criminal gangs by IRT operatives attached to the Operation Restore Hope of the Force in Yankwani village and Kurani town, the team swung into action and arrested the suspects in their various hideouts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the three key suspects confessed to the crime during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIRT personnel arrested the key suspects Muttaka Ibrahim, Suleiman Rabiu, and Surajo all male natives of Bakori LGA for allegedly supplying the information that led to the assault on the lawmaker where his family members were taken into captivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring investigation, Muttaka Ibrahim confessed to the crime saying that he and other gang members were informants to Sanni Tukur aka Abacha terrorising the people of the villages and towns in Katsina and Zamfara States.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThey were said to have volunteered information to the bandit leader leading to the kidnap of the wife of Honourable Ibrahim Aminu, and six others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther victims of the criminal syndicate include one Buhari Usman, also known as Fedeco, Nazaradeen Ibrahim, Amandallah Ahmad, Ibrahim Suleiman, Sumayya Nura, and Yahaya Bura who are currently in the captivity of the gang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kidnappers, after kidnapping the wife of the lawmaker Rabi Yusuf and two of his male children all of Bakori LGA had demanded and received eleven million naira and ten million naira for his children at different times.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, one of the bandits\u2019 informants, Muttaka Ibrahim, admitted haven got a payment of N130,000 from the gang leader adding that one Yusuf Bala of Zaria is his accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also admitted that the bandits\u2019 leader collected a total of six million five hundred thousand naira from the victims they kidnaped at Yankwani town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrating his ordeal, the lawmaker told Police investigators that he paid a total sum of thirty-seven million and five hundred thousand naira to the gang leader to secure his family member\u2019s release from captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi noted that the suspects are still undergoing investigation by the Police and would be charged to court if found culpable in the crime as alleged by the leader of the team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested three informants to a kidnap for ransom syndicate who kidnapped the wife and two children of a serving lawmaker,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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