THE State Security Service ( SSS ) on Thursday said it had foiled a plot to abduct one of the daughters of late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
The SSS said two suspects, Hamza Abubakar and Lawrence Okoro, had been arrested in connection with the foiled kidnap attempt.
Deputy Director, SSS, Public Relations, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, told newsmen in Abuja that the two suspects had on August 21,2013 attempted to kidnap the late President’s daughter at a construction site belonging to her at the Kado area of the Federal Capital Territory.
Ogar did not reveal the name of the targeted ex-President’s daughter.
She said that Abubakar,27 and Okoro, 43 colluded with one Abu Katsina and four others to plan the abduction.
The four other suspects, according to Ogar, are Daddy Mohammed, Isa Keteri, Masa’udu Kateri and another person simply identified as Ik.
Ogar said that Hamza cultivated the friendship of Katsina, a security guard at the late president’s daughter’s construction site, thus providing him the opportunity to visit the area regularly.
She said, “Having obtained sufficient information on the lady, he contacted Dennis, who was at Owerri at the time. The suspects had planned to kidnap and detain the woman at Zuba, in the residence of an acquaintance of Okoro. However, the SSS operatives, acting on actionable intelligence, foiled the plot.
“Both Hamza and Dennis and other collaborators shall be charged to court soon.”
Ogar said that Abubakar was charged with armed robbery in 2006 and remanded at Goron Dutse Prison, Kano, till August 9, 2013 before he was granted bail.
She added that Okoro was also charged with similar offence in 2000 and remanded in the same prison till March 1, 2013 before being granted bail.
According to her, the two became friends while in prison and later reunited in August 2013 after their freedom and subsequently plotted the kidnap plan.
This kidnapping menace is getting worse by the day. Now that the christmas season is fast approaching,we must all learn to sleep with one eye open and be more vigilant. I think that the punishment for kidnapping should be made stiffer and a special squad or team of sorts set up to combat this evil. Do you agree with me? What suggestions do you have to help solve this 'national' problem?
Adelani Adepegba
The government should re Introduce firing squad specifically for them. Anyone caugth should be shot to death in public.
ReplyDeleteShooting those of them caught will be a good step
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