Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested two notorious kidnapping kingpins and recovered a sum of ₦7.4 million cash and three AK-47 rifles in Abuja.
CP Saka Ajao Adewale disclosed this to newsmen over the weekend, identifying the suspects as Masud Abdullahi, a resident of Karu LGA, Nasarawa State, who he said is the gang leader, and Muhammad Tahir, a resident of Jos, Plateau State.
He stated that their arrests followed a counter-kidnapping operation.
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He said the arrests followed a report received at around 12:05 am on August 16, 2025, that a kidnapping syndicate had invaded an estate in Karu, Abuja. According to him, the armed assailants forcefully broke into the home of one Barrister Henry Chichi and abducted him to an unknown location.
Upon receiving the report, the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit immediately swung into action, mounting intense pressure on the kidnappers, which eventually led to the victim’s safe release at about 9:05 p.m. on August 17, 2025.
According to him, in a follow-up operation in collaboration with the Nasarawa State Police Command, the assailants were tracked and intercepted along the Guraku axis of the Nasarawa-FCT highway after their operational vehicle, a red Opel Vectra with registration number BLD 566 AT, lost control.
While some of the gang members escaped, the gang leader, Masud Abdullahi, and his associate, Muhammad Tahir, were arrested in the process.
He said the two suspects later led police operatives to their hideout in the Karshi forest, Nasarawa State, where another gang member, identified as Kabiru Jibril, was arrested.
CP Adewale disclosed that the exhibits recovered from the hideout included ₦7.4 million in cash, three AK-47 rifles with magazines, one G3 rifle with a magazine, 16 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition, and a handset.