{"id":108318,"date":"2024-01-25T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna"},"modified":"2024-01-25T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:03:26","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspected kidnapper, recover share of ransom in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters, Kaduna, have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered his share of collected ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The state police spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement on Thursday, said, \u201cOn the 19th January, 2024, at about 2200 hours, the said Divisional Headquarters was in receipt of a credible information regarding the presence of a suspicious person in Easyway Hotel in Tafa town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperatives led by the Divisional Police Officer stormed the hotel and arrested a certain 28 years old Bello Muhammad from Zamfara State and recovered the sum of two million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N2,350,000:00) suspected to be proceeds of kidnapping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the course of investigation, the suspect admitted to being a kidnapper who operates with his gang around Kagarko forest in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aforementioned sum is his own share of a ransom collected. Moreover, a check on his mobile phone corroborated the suspect\u2019s confession as pictures of him brandishing an AK47 rifle in a forest were retrieved,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the said suspect offered the sum of N1 million as bribe to the DPO in a bid to stop further investigation into the case but the police officer rejected the offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation is still ongoing as the suspect is assisting the police with vital information,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command, CP A.D Ali, while praising the Tafa Division\u2019s operatives, urged them to increase the tempo until crimes and criminality are reduced in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The CP equally tasked hoteliers and other recreation and leisure service operators in the state to always scrutinise the identity of their customers to avoid providing criminals with safe haven.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters, Kaduna, have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered his share of collected ransom. The state police spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement on Thursday, said, \u201cOn the 19th January, 2024, at about 2200 hours, the said Divisional Headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":108317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1570,2140,96,254,165],"class_list":["post-108318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-kaduna","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrest suspected kidnapper, recover share of ransom in Kaduna - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters, Kaduna, have arrested a susp ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police arrest suspected kidnapper, recover share of ransom in Kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters, Kaduna, have arrested a susp ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-25T17:56:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-25T20:03:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1706196572.547459.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police arrest suspected kidnapper, recover share of ransom in Kaduna\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-25T17:56:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-25T20:03:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1706196572.547459.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Kaduna\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-recover-share-of-ransom-in-kaduna\",\"name\":\"Police arrest suspected kidnapper, recover share of ransom in Kaduna - 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