By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a kidnapper, who along with his gang members are Oyo State-based, but spread their tentacles to Kwara State.
The Fulani kidnapper,
Issa Naigheti, confessed to the Police that he and his friends are kidnappers, usually operating in Igboho and Igbeti axis of Oyo State, but come over to Kwara State as well.
He was arrested around Kambi; a commercial settlement in the outskirt of Ilorin, the state capital. Kambi is a commercial settlement usually full of activities and made up mainly of Hausa/Fulanis.
A statement by the Kwara Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, said that the Anti-Kidnapping team of the state command arrested Naigheti on January 4, 2023, around Kambi area while on the trail of suspected kidnappers.
Naigheti was said to have confessed during interrogation that he and his two gang members conspired to kidnap his own father, one Bature Naigboho, in their place at Igboho/Igbeti axis of Oyo State, disclosing that they collected a sum of N2.5 million as ransom on his kidnapped father.
Okasanmi said that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Odama, had directed that police dragnet be spread to ensure the arrests of the kidnappers’ other accomplices, while the case would be transferred to Oyo State, the jurisdiction where the offence was committed.
Meanwhile, the police spokesman said that his boss, CP Odama, has paid an unscheduled visit to the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters in Ilorin as parts of the efforts to ensure that security arrangements are placed in and around INEC facilities in the state.
Okasanmi added that this would be particularly ensured at the commission’s state headquarters in Ilorin, where watertight security would be put in place.
While at the INEC premises, the PPRO said that the CP was received on arrival by the HoD ICT, Mr. Yinusa Musa, who conducted him round the facilities where some election materials already received by INEC, like BVAS, computers, and other materials were kept.
The Police Commissioner, he said, commended his men (the police personnel) and other operatives on duty, where he took time to advise them to be fully alert at all times and as well be very sensitive to what was happening around them.
The CP was accompanied on the visit by DCP Adekimi Ojo, who is the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations in the Command.
