Suspected 3,000 Kidnappers Arrested

About 3,000 suspected kidnappers have been arrested nationwide.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, made this known in his briefing at the State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. He said that a task force had been inaugurated to scrutinize and streamline the suspects with a view to ensuring their speedy trial. The IGP, on Friday, said the police had so far apprehended about 3,000 suspected kidnappers nationwide.

In his speech,“Presently we have almost over 3000 suspects in the various police stations all over the country and we are taking them to court. Recently, I set up a task force to sort of streamline or scrutinize these cases so that we have speedy trial of some of these suspects”.

The police boss said he had deployed special police unit to patrol the Abuja-Kaduna- Kano highway with a view to checking the menace of armed robbers and kidnappers along the road. He appreciated the efforts of the National Assembly for proposing death penalty for those found guilty of kidnapping in the country.

He expressed hope of the drastic fall of kidnapping cases in view of the proposed death.