Police have arrested four kidnappers that abducted a nursing mother and her daughter in Yola, Adamawa State.
Spokesperson of the command, Sulaiman Nguroje, disclosed this in Yola, on Thursday.
Nguroj said the suspects were also behind the attack on Ngurore Police station and later abducted a woman, Hauwa Umaru and her daughter, around 2am on October 10.
Sulaiman said operatives of the Anti Kidnapping unit of the state command arrested the suspects on Thursday and recovered one AK-47 rifle with 16 rounds of live ammunition.
“The breakthrough that led to the arrest of the suspects began with the arrest of one Buba Ibrahim a.k.a Babangida , 20, a native of Wuro Bilal village, Ngurore District ,Yola South local government area,’ he said.
“Ibrahim Babangida is one of the principal suspects in the kidnap operation and the confession of the suspect revealed how they abducted Hauwa Umaru, her daughter and one Alhaji Bahago of Ibbare and also attacked the Ngurore police station.
“The police were assisted by some professional Hunters who apprehended the other three gang members”, Nguroje said.
He identified the three arrested gang members as: Tumba Alhaji Dan Bappa, 25, a native of Ibbare district, Yola south LGA; Buba Alhaji Abdu, a resident of Ibbare, Ngurore District, and Abdullahi Lawal , a resident of Lau local government area in Taraba state.
He said the suspects would be charged to court on completion of investigations.
