Residents of the towns of Kawu and Gaba in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, were tense after six alleged kidnapper informants were apprehended nearby.
A Kawu resident only known as Shuaibu claimed that security personnel made the arrest on Monday afternoon during a raid at the two settlements.
“The security operatives arrived around 2:00 pm in two Hilux vans and arrested four people in Kawu and two others in Gaba village,” he clarified.
The arrests took place between Saturday and Monday, according to a security source who participated in the operation but wished to remain anonymous.
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He clarified, saying, “The arrests were a part of a mop-up exercise across neighbouring area councils and villages in Kuje.” We managed to apprehend both indigenous people and herdsmen.
Remember that three weeks ago, two locals of the Sabo village, Bissalla Yusuf and Mohammed Ibrahim, were kidnapped, and their kidnappers sought a ransom of N15 million?
When reached, SP Adeh Josephine, a spokesman for the FCT Police Command, stated she had not yet received information regarding the arrests.
