US EditionPolice Bust Kidnappers’ Hideout in Nasarawa, Rescue 23 Foreign Victims
The victims, mainly from Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana, were held for ransom with a demand of 10 million naira each, police said.
- A major anti-kidnapping operation in Ado-Mararaba, Nasarawa State rescued 23 foreign nationals and arrested 14 suspected kidnappers.
- SP Josephine Adeh said victims from Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana were lured with job promises and held for ransom, while investigators say Abubakar Jigiba coordinates the syndicate.
- The rescued group included 14 men, eight women, and a child, all confined in two fortified apartments, while local vigilantes said they had assumed the foreigners were doing business.
- CP Miller G. Dantawaye praised the inter-agency collaboration and described the operation as a warning, while Nasarawa State Police Command and local vigilantes assisted with victim profiling and medical checks.
- Residents had long reported suspicious activity at the Ado-Mararaba riverside settlement, where Sougule Zoubere allegedly handled recruitment and smuggling via illegal border routes.
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Police bust kidnappers’ hideout in Nasarawa, rescue 23 foreign victims
A major anti-kidnapping operation in Ado-Mararaba, Nasarawa State, has led to the rescue of 23 foreign nationals and the arrest of 14 suspected kidnappers, in what authorities describe as a breakthrough against transnational human trafficking and kidnapping rings operating across West Africa. The raid, carried out by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command’s Scorpion Squad, took place at Angwan Adamu Ruga Fulani Zone B, a riverside se…
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Operatives of the Scorpion Squad of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have smashed 14 cross border kidnap syndicate and rescuing 23 foreign nationals that were held at a settlement in Unguwar -Adamu Zone B River Side Ado- Mararaba, bordering FCT and Nasarawa State. CP Miller G Dantawaye, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters in Abuja on Friday, said the intelligence-led operation took place around…
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