{"id":123951,"date":"2024-07-11T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/suspected-kidnapper-nabbed-after-collecting-ransom-in-yobe"},"modified":"2024-07-11T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:36:23","slug":"suspected-kidnapper-nabbed-after-collecting-ransom-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/suspected-kidnapper-nabbed-after-collecting-ransom-in-yobe","title":{"rendered":"Suspected kidnapper nabbed after collecting ransom in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Yobe State Police Command has announced the arrest of Usmanu Garba (30), suspected to be a member of a criminal gang.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 5, 2024, at about 1300 hours, detectives from the State Intelligence Department (SID) arrested Usmanu Garba of Katarko village, Gujba LGA, while he was on his way to spend his share of the proceeds from a kidnap operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect is a member of a gang that specializes in armed robbery, kidnapping, and rustling in Gujba LGA and neighboring towns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gang was responsible for the recent kidnapping incident in Babaram Muktum, a Fulani settlement in Gujba LGA, where they kidnapped a resident and collected a ransom of N1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also robbed the victim\u2019s father of his Techno phone,\u201d Abdulkarim stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added that other syndicate members were on the run, and that the Command was intensifying efforts to apprehend them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Yobe State Police Command has announced the arrest of Usmanu Garba (30), suspected to be a member of a criminal gang. The Command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement. \u201cOn July 5, 2024, at about 1300 hours, detectives from the State Intelligence Department (SID) arrested Usmanu Garba of Katarko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":123950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[3561,254,334],"class_list":["post-123951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-kidnapper","tag-nigeria","tag-yobe"],"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>Suspected kidnapper nabbed after collecting ransom in Yobe - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yobe State Police Command has announced the arrest of Usmanu Garba (30), suspected to be a member of a criminal gang. 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