DSS Arrests 23 Kidnap Suspects Across The Country

The Department of State Service, DSS, has carried
out a sweeping arrest of suspected kidnappers
terrorising parts of the country.
In a statement by an official of the service, Tony
Opuiyo, the suspects who work in syndicate
groups terrorize their victims and members of the
public across the States particularly in the South-
South, South-West and the North-West zones of
the country.
According to Opuiyo, in the course of their
dastardly acts, the suspects rape, maim and even
murder their victims. They also inflict
psychological pains, humiliation and grief on their
victims and their families as well as extort huge
sums of money from families or friends of victims.
At the last count, over 23 suspects were arrested
from their various hideouts in Delta, Ekiti, Osun,
Abia, Kebbi and Zamfara States.
The kidnap suspects were alleged to have operated
in Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Imo, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi,
Niger, FCT, Kwara and Oyo States.
Notable among the suspected kidnappers include a
lance-corporal, one Akeem Bello, a lance-corporal
who deserted his unit in the Nigerian Army, while
deployed in Maiduguri, a herbalist, Obukoko
Emoabe and one Rachael Oladapo, a female, who
was used by the gang as a reconnaissance spy
and informant.
Some of the notable kidnap incidences carried out
by the suspects include the kidnap of the Regent of
Akungba in Ondo State, one Maryam Mohammed
Rabiu, the daughter of Mohammed Rabiu who was
abducted on 13th July 2015 and the recent kidnap
of the driver of the brother of former INEC
chairman, Attahiru Jega, Abbas Mohammed Jega.