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Nigeria's secret police nabs 10 kidnap suspects in central north state

Xinhua, July 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nigeria's secret police said on Wednesday that it had arrested 10 suspected kidnappers terrorizing the central north Kogi State.

Director for the State Security Service, Joseph Okpo, told reporters in Lokoja, the state capital that the suspects were arrested in different parts of the state in the past two weeks.

According to him, the suspects were arrested on the Lokoja-Abuja road on their way from Kaduna with the intent to link up with their other accomplices in Obajana area, where they had planned to kidnap some people.

Okpo said the suspects, during interrogation, confessed to have carried out six operations between the Ramadan period and the day they were caught.

The state is one of the place where thousands of passengers travelling by road have been waylaid by armed bandits and dispossessed of their goods. Endit