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Police Arrest Two Over Kidnapped Children In FCT
The police command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said it had rescued two children allegedly kidnapped by three suspects in Zuba area of the territory.
The suspects are: Nasiru Mohammed, 20, Sale Bello, 19 and Hassan Audu, 20.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, MrBalaCiroma, stated this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that the victims, Seke, 9 and Rejoice Godwin, 7 who are of the same parents, were abducted on March 8 from Yimi village in Zuba and rescued in Lambata in Niger.
The commissioner said that two dane guns were recovered from the suspects at the point of the arrest.
In a related development, Ciroma said that the command arrested five armed robbery suspects who allegedly robbed an apartment at the Sun City Estate in Galadimawa area of Abuja.
The suspects arrested are: Ayuba Isaac,22, Philemon Yohanna,28, Johnson Moses,28, OduolaDayo, 28, and Paul Philip, 22.
He said that while one of the suspects was arrested by police operatives on duty at Galadimawa Round About, his cohorts were later arrested in their hide-out on March 3.
Ciroma said items recovered from the suspects are: two locally made pistols, nine rounds of live cartridges, one cutter, one iPhone and N91,000.