Niger: Police arrest 2 over N14m ransom, rescue 6 victims

The Niger State Police Command has arrested 2 suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate accused of collecting ₦14 cardinal successful ransom aft abducting 10 victims on the Tegina-Makera road.

The suspects, including Aliyu Muhammad Bodo, 23, of Dutsen-gogo via Babana, New Bussa, and Tukur Hassan Ali, 22, of Bode-Saadu, Kwara State, were arrested during a associated information cognition astir Tanangi colony wood via Kasanga successful Mashegu Local Government Area.

The operation, conducted connected August 14 by associated information teams and section vigilantes pursuing a kidnapping incidental successful the area, besides led to the rescue of six victims.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, 2 bare AK-47 magazines, 10 Android phones belonging to victims, 5 keypad phones, a NIN slip, a brownish container and ₦1,045,200 were recovered from the suspects.

The constabulary PRO disclosed that the recovered currency was a...