{"id":374802,"date":"2025-07-05T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/05\/niger-police-nab-two-notorious-kidnappers-armed-robber\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:59:30","slug":"niger-police-nab-two-notorious-kidnappers-armed-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/05\/niger-police-nab-two-notorious-kidnappers-armed-robber\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Police Nab Two Notorious Kidnappers, Armed Robber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Operatives of Niger State Police Command have apprehended two notorious kidnappers for allegedly disturbing the peace of residents of Bosso Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that the security agents also nabbed one armed robber in a separate operation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday by Spokesman for the state\u2019s Police Command, Wasiu Abiodun, identified the suspects as\u00a0Sani Mohammed, Abubakar Dahiru, and Idris Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Niger Police Raid Criminal Hideouts In Suleja, Arrest 20 Suspects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abiodun disclosed that the arrested individuals were apprehended on June 16, 2025, by operatives of the Crack Squad and STS.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Sani and Abubakar were linked to several high-profile kidnappings, including the abduction of a widow in Maikunkele, for which they demanded and received a ransom of N8 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s Spokesman also disclosed that the same gang was involved in the kidnap of two brothers in Beji, for which they demanded a N5 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun stated that after receiving the sum of N2.2 million, they released one before killing the other brother.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe two suspects later fled to Kaba, Kogi and Zamfara States, until recently planning to regroup, with the intention to invite Yeli from Zamfara and Smally from Kogi State.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-infor-trackid=\"966303\" data-infor-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-826167442\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751716770_278_300x250@2x.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"600\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of Niger State Police Command have apprehended two notorious kidnappers for allegedly disturbing the peace of residents of Bosso Local Government. 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In a statement on Friday by Spokesman for the state\u2019s Police Command, Wasiu Abiodun, identified the suspects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-metro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Niger Police Nab Two Notorious Kidnappers, Armed Robber - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/05\/niger-police-nab-two-notorious-kidnappers-armed-robber\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niger Police Nab Two Notorious Kidnappers, Armed Robber - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operatives of Niger State Police Command have apprehended two notorious kidnappers for allegedly disturbing the peace of residents of Bosso Local Government. 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