Toscad News By Ayomikun Fulani
Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team attached to the Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police Force, have arrested a Kuje prison escapee and 20 other suspected criminals on allegations of kidnapping, armed robbery, culpable homicide and illegal escape from custody.
The suspects were paraded at the FIB-IRT station in Abuja on Wednesday.
One of the arrested suspects, Abdulrazak Isah, is an escapee from the Kuje Correctional Facility during the attack on the facility by members of the Islamic State of West African Province on June 22, 2022.
Isah, aged 27, from Ondo State, was convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of an Indian national in 2013 and had spent about 10 years prior to his escape from the detention facility.
He was arrested at Tafa LGA of Kaduna State for stealing an iPad and a computer monitor from a hotel in Sabon Wuse, Niger State.
Also, four kidnap-for-ransom kingpins, Hamishu Galadima, aka Kan Wuka; Abdulwahab Alhassan, aka Emeka; Abdulwahab Ahmed aka Dan Mama and Hamidu Saleh, were arrested in Bauchi for criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping, and culpable homicide.
They confessed to the killing of a retired Divisional Police Officer, CSP Garkuwa, and a serving member of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Musa Mante.
They noted that they killed Garkuwa because for giving them tough time while in service, and also claimed to have killed Honourable Mante over an alleged failed promise to drill boreholes in his constituency, and kidnapped three members of his family.
Eleven undergraduate students, all male, who confessed to being members of the Neo-Black Movement popularly known as Black Axe or Aiye confraternity, were arrested at Ekpoma, Edo State for involvement in cultism and illegal possession of firearms.
The 11 students are 22-year-old Okosun Pascal, 24-year-old Michael Ehineboh, 22-year-old Aneto Israel, 23-year-old Destiny Uhomogiwan, 20-year-old Bello Sunday, 27-year-old Eramoh Akhere, 22-year-old Osagie Adamson, 24-year-old Okoruwa Christian, Edoghogho Wellington, all nine from Esan LGA in Edo State, and 20-year-old Momoh Kingsley from Estako West LGA in Edo State, and 24-year-old Chukwu Chukwuemeka from Nkanu West LGA in Enugu State.
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