Bauchi police apprehend serial kidnapper, gang members, others
Bauchi police apprehend serial kidnapper, gang members, others
Bauchi police apprehend serial kidnapper, gang members, others
Story from Matthew ELOYI
The Bauchi State Police Command has apprehended a fleeing serial kidnapper who fled from Plateau to hide in the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Sylvester Abiodun Alabi, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Bauchi said the Command arrested other suspected criminals in parts of the state.
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According to the CP, the suspected serial kidnapper, one Sanusi Lauwali, alias No Delay of Gudale village Ningi Local Government Area of the state was arrested based on intelligence.
He revealed that the suspect confessed to have fled from Tunga village in Plateau State, where he was at a mining site for two years before moving to Gudale village.
“On preliminary investigation, Sunusi Lauwali confessed to having relocated from Tunga village in Plateau State to Gudale village in Ningi LGA. The suspect revealed that he has been at a mining site of Tunga village for 2yrs where he belonged to a group of criminals who specialized in armed robbery and kidnapping,” Alabi said.
He named Lauwali’s gang members as one Ali and one Bammi (real names not yet known).
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The police chief said an investigation was being expanded to nab the fleeing accomplices.
In a related development, CP Alabi informed that two other kidnappers who demanded and collected the sum of N1,200,000 as ransom from a man they shot and kidnapped his two wives, were arrested following information volunteered to the police by a good Nigerian.
