A member of a kidnap syndicate who reportedly kidnapped a magistrate in Kwara state early in the year, Abubakar Shehu, has been apprehended by the men of the state Police command in another kidnap incident.
Magistrate Bamigboye is the wife of the former military administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, Colonel Theophilus Bamigboye.
Speaking with journalists while parading some suspected criminals including suspected ritualists, kidnappers and cultists in Ilorin on Thursday, the state Police commissioner, Paul Odama, said that Dogo was part of a five-man kidnap gang that was arrested on March 3, 2023, at about 2100hours by the anti-kidnapping teams attached to Eyenkorin Axis of Ilorin in collaboration with local vigilante group.
The Police boss said that the command’s anti-kidnapping teams, in possession of intelligence, that a group of persons suspected to be kidnappers were sighted along Eyenkorin forest, stormed the forest.
He said that the operation led to the arrest of the following suspects: Abubakar Shehu ‘male’ aka Dogo, Mohammed Aliyu, 30 years; Yunusa Ahmadu, 28 years; Malami Usman, 27 years; Dauda Amosa, 28years.
“Investigation into the case revealed that Abubakar Shehu aka Dogo and his gang were the kidnappers behind the kidnap of one Alhaji Madaki Shaibu at Ayegun Fulani Camp sometime in January 2023, where the son of the Alhaji was killed.