The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday said it had arrested five suspects in connection with the kidnapping of Governor Yahaya Bello’s mother in May 2014.
Hajia Hawawu Bello, 80, mother of the then Managing Director of Fair Plus Transport Services, was kidnapped in Uvete, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi, on May 29 2014.
The suspects are Iliyasu Suleiman, 44, Danjuma Ibrahim, 26, Iliyasu Obadaki, 35, Alhaji Nasiru, 43, and Hafiz Yakubu.
Suleiman is a former councillor and suspected gang leader.
Force Spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, disclosed this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
Moshood said that items recovered from the suspects include two AK 47 rifles, 20 live cartridges, one army camouflage inner wear, two army camouflage pair of trousers and two army camouflage caps.
Others are one black Beretta, two plastic guns, three sharp knives and one axe.
He said that all the suspects had confessed to the kidnapping of the governor’s mother and other robberies in FCT, Kogi and Niger.
The spokesman said that efforts were being intensified to arrest fleeing members of the gang while the suspects would be charged to court on completion of investigation.
He enjoined members of the public to cooperate with the police to prevent crime and criminality in their localities.
Bello assumed office as Kogi governor on January 27, 2016.
