Police parade two suspected kidnappers of four Turkish nationals

By Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin

Kwara state police command Wednesday paraded two suspected kidnappers of four Turkish nationals in Ilorin, the state capital.

Police said that the suspects, Umaru Mohammed Tambaya (29) and Muhammed Tambaya Bell (26) allegedly participated in the kidnap of four nationals at Gbugbu village, Edu local government area of the state in July 2019.

The kidnapped nationals had since been released without payment of ransom, the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Bagega has said.

Parading the suspects in Ilorin, Mr. Bagega said that “concerted effort by the men of the command and members of the community-led to the arrest of four of the kidnappers then with one AK47 rife. The two above escaped arrest. The command has been in the search for the two fleeing suspects.

“Actionable intelligence, however, indicated that the suspects were planning to carry out another operation and my operatives swooped on them and arrested them.”

The commissioner added that the suspects confessed to be members of the six-man syndicate that abducted the four Turkish citizens.

“They also confessed to have participated in several other kidnap incidents, especially along the Enugu/Abakaliki axis of the South East of the country,” the police chief added.

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The commissioner also paraded one Akinsola Babatunde aka Mr. White for allegedly planning to organize a nude party in Ilorin, the state capital.

He said that the suspect advertised the proposed party on social media, demanding would-be participants to a sum of N20,000 to a designated bank.

He added that the suspect and his cohorts are into organizing strip/naked parties in lounges, club house, service apartments in Ilorin and its environs.

He said: “Operatives of the state Intelligence Bureau attached to the command carried out a sting operation involving tactical undercover and maneouvre arrested the suspect who had advertised for a strip party in Ilorin on social media and successfully organized a party in a service apartment at Joab street, behind Shoprite.

“The immoral and illegal action of the suspect and his accomplices clearly contradicted the COVID-19 protocols and equally promotes crime and criminality.”