Nigerian police arrest 2 members of transnational kidnap syndicate
- The Nigeria police has confirmed the arrest of two suspects who are members of a 15-man kidnap syndicate
- The suspects in their twenties were involved in the abduction of a United States citizen back in October
- Frank Mba, the police force public relations officer made the disclosure in a statement
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Two suspects involved in the kidnapping of an American citizen, Philippe Nathan Walton, have been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
Legit.ng gathered that Walton was abducted from his farm in Masalata Village, Republic of Niger on October 28.
According to a press release by DCP Frank Mba, Force spokesman, the two male suspects are members of a 15-man transnational kidnap syndicate of Nigerian/Nigerien extraction, led by Barte Dan Alhaji and Dan Buda.
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The suspects who are both from Sokoto state were identified as Aliyu Abdullahi, 21, a.k.a Mallam, and Aliyu Umaru, 23, a.k.a Kwatte Kusu.
Their arrest was made possible by a special intelligence-led operation aimed at arresting the criminal gang on November 25.
The gang was reportedly plotting other abductions to avenge the death of their members who died during the rescue operations but they met their waterloo.
The police said they are collaborating with its Nigerien counterpart to arrest other members of the transnational syndicate at large.
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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that US forces conducted a hostage rescue operation in northern Nigeria. The operation was to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of armed men.
The American citizen was reportedly abducted in Niger Republic, but was rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria.
The mission was said to have been undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major effort to free the U.S. citizen, Philip Walton, 27, before his abductors could get far after taking him captive in Niger on Monday, October 26.
In a related development, the lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central at the Senate during 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has advised Nigerian governors following the spate of kidnappings and killings in many states.
Sani in a thread of tweet on Wednesday, December 9, asked the governors led by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state to use their security votes to pay ransom for the kidnap victims.
He, however, consoled the families of the victims of bandit attacks and massacre in the Giwa local government area of Kaduna state, saying the killings of Nigerians should be stopped.
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