Daily Trust

9 suspected kidnappers arrested in Ekiti

- From Raphael Ogbonnaiye, Ado-Ekiti

The police in Ekiti State have arrested nine kidnappers at their hideout in a forest in the state.

The spokesman of the police in the state, ASP Sunday Abutu, in a statement yesterday, listed those arrested as Hassan Mesaje, Dagogo Nadahi, Saidi Laun, Abubakar

Usman, Lawal Abdullahi, Usman Ibrahim, Idris Ahmed, Usman Abubakar and Dahiru Adamu.

ASP Abutu said, “Following intelligen­ce…The police bombarded Ago Aduloju forest in Ado-Ekiti where the hoodlums attacked the operatives with weapons during which one of the operatives sustained a serious injury.”

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