{"id":14405,"date":"2019-08-20T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14405"},"modified":"2019-08-20T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:42:49","slug":"just-in-police-re-arrest-notorious-kidnap-kingpin-hamisu-wadume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/just-in-police-re-arrest-notorious-kidnap-kingpin-hamisu-wadume","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Police Re-Arrest Notorious Kidnap Kingpin Hamisu Wadume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notorious kidnap kingpin Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the force headquarters on microblogging site, Twitter revealed that Wadume was arrested on Monday in Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>Tribune Online recalls that Wadume who was initially arrested by Police was freed on August 6, 2019 in Taraba State. Three Police officers and two civilians were killed in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads: \u201cThe operatives of the Nigeria Police have re-arrested the notorious kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume. He was re-arrested in the late hours of yesterday, 19th August, 2019 in his hideout at Layin Mai Allo Hotoro area of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be recalled that the Police had been on the massive manhunt for the suspect, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume since 6th August, 2019 following the unfortunate incident in Ibi, Taraba State which resulted in the brutal murder of 3 \u2013 Police Officers and two (2) civilians, and injury to five (5) others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect, who was appropriately restrained at the time of the incident, was subsequently released by his \u201crescuers\u201d after they had destroyed the restraining handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM,mni while commending the Police operatives for their perseverance and painstaking efforts, has expressed his profound gratitude to all Nigerians for their unparalleled show of love and empathy to the Force and the families of the officers and patriotic civilians who paid the supreme price in the service of their fatherland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is his belief that the re-arrest of the suspect, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, will no doubt, help in bringing answers to the numerous but hitherto unanswered questions touching on the incident and the larger criminal enterprise of the suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notorious kidnap kingpin Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force. A statement by the force headquarters on microblogging site, Twitter revealed that Wadume was arrested on Monday in Kano State. Tribune Online recalls that Wadume who was initially arrested by Police was freed on August 6, 2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[372,277,548,783],"class_list":["post-14405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-kano","tag-kidnapping","tag-nigerian-police","tag-wadume"],"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>JUST IN: Police Re-Arrest Notorious Kidnap Kingpin Hamisu Wadume - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/just-in-police-re-arrest-notorious-kidnap-kingpin-hamisu-wadume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JUST IN: Police Re-Arrest Notorious Kidnap Kingpin Hamisu Wadume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Notorious kidnap kingpin Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force. 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