June 15, 2026
By Kingsley Omonobi
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested a suspected informant linked to kidnapping gangs, along with four other suspects, as part of ongoing operations targeting criminal networks involved in kidnapping and banditry across the territory.
The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Sanusi, disclosed that the arrests followed a recent anti-kidnapping and rescue operation conducted in the Paze–Byazhin area of the FCT on June 9, 2026.
According to the police commissioner, a follow-up operation was carried out on June 11, during which operatives raided a suspected kidnapping and banditry hideout in the same area and arrested four suspects identified as Yahaya Abdullahi, Muhammed Yunusa, Hauwa Shafiu and Shamsudeen Mustapha.
