Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested a dismissed soldier, Gabriel David Elihu, a resident of Apo Mechanic Village, and Alex Iorjaa, a local of Gboko Native Authorities Space of Benue State, for alleged armed theft and kidnapping in Abuja.
FCT Police Commissioner CP Ben Igweh, who paraded the suspects, famous that they had been arrested on March 17, after receiving a misery name from two victims via Mabushi Division at round 2:30 p.m.; I blessed Mafulul Damia and Haliru Zakari that some males in an unregistered Toyota Hilux adopted them whereas they had been on their manner from a medical store in Gwarimpa to Gishiri village, robbed them of their valuables and tried to kidnap them.
The CP stated that upon receiving the data, cops from the division swung into motion, chased the automobile and arrested the 2 suspects Elihu and Iorjaa. A black coloured Toyota Hilux with registration quantity NBB 03 AH (Nasarawa), a pocket knife and a few navy tools had been recovered. The suspects will seem in courtroom quickly.
The police boss additionally famous that on March 14, 2023, at about 5:30 p.m., “Akuh Chinemezeh reported on the Apo Division Headquarters that his youthful brother, one Pascal Akuh, 28 years previous, referred to as him and stated he was by the police arrested and brought to hospital. SCID custody.
“Based mostly on this, the police and the suspect's household went to the SCID, IRT and FCID detention facilities, solely to seek out out that he’s not in any of the above-mentioned amenities.
“Utilizing a tracker utilizing coordinates, the suspect’s automobile was traced to an space in Wumba, Apo. Appearing on this info, the cops from Apo Division rapidly arrived on the scene, searched your entire axis and later within the night traced the suspect to a lodge in Lokogoma and arrested the suspect.
“Throughout interrogation, the suspect confessed that he solely staged his personal kidnapping to idiot the girl he needed to marry to know if she actually cherished him.”
On this regard, the police stated: “On March 11, 2024, at about 7:40 p.m., Chiedozie Ubah, husband of Saburi II Dei-dei, Abuja, reported at Gwagwa Division that his pregnant spouse Rosemary Ubah had left for hospital on the identical date scan however didn’t return house.
He later acquired a name on his spouse's cellphone quantity, informing him that his spouse had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom of N2 million earlier than she was launched. He transferred the quantity of two million naira to his spouse's account as instructed by the kidnapper.
He later took his spouse to the station after her launch. Throughout interrogation, the girl brazenly confessed that she had conspired with a person named Walter Ezeala, who lived on the identical avenue with them in Saburi, to extort cash from her husband.
