Kwara Police arrests young Fulani kidnapper

Wole Adedeji, Ilorin

The Police in Kwara State has arrested a kidnapper who along with his gang members are Oyo State based but spread their tentacles to Kwara State.

Issa Naigheti, the Fulani-man kidnapper, who confessed to the Police that he and his friends are  kidnappers usually operating in Igboho and Igbeti area of Oyo State but spread their tentacles to Kwara.

Issa Naigheti, the Fulani-man kidnapper who confessed to the Police that he and his friends are  kidnappers usually operating in Igboho and Igbeti area of Oyo State but come over to Kwara State as well.

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He was arrested  around Kambi; a commercial settlement in the outskirt of Ilorin, the State capital. Kambi is a commercial settlement usually full of activities and made up mainly of Hausa/Fulanis.

A statement by the Kwara Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ajayi Okasanmi said the Anti-Kidnapping team of the State Command arrested Issa Naigheti on January 4, 2023 around Kambi area while on the trail of suspected kidnappers.

Naigheti was said to have confessed during  interogation that he and his two gang members conspired to kidnap his own father, one Bature Naigboho in their place at Igboho/Igbeti axis of Oyo State, disclosing that they collected a sum of N2.5 million as ransom on his kidnapped father.

Okasanmi said the State Cimmissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Odama had directed that police dragnet be spread was said to ensure arrests of the kidnappers other accomplices whole the case would be transferred to Oyo State, the venue of the commission of the crime.

Meanwhile, the police spokesman said his boss; CP Odama has paid an unscheduled visit to the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Headquarters in Ilorin as parts of the efforts to ensure that the security arrangements are placed in and around INEC facilities in the State.

Okasanmi added that this would be particularly ensured at the Commission’s State headquarters in Ilorin where watertight security would be put in place.

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While at the INEC premises, the PPRO said the CP was received on arrival by the HOD ICT, Mr. Yinusa Musa, who conducted him round the facilities where some election materials already received by INEC, e.g., BVAS, computers, and other materials were kept.

The Police Commissioner he said, commended his men (the police personnel) and other operatives on duty where he took time to advise them to be fully alert at all times and as well be very sensitive to what was happening around them.

The was accompanied on the visit by DCP Adekimi Ojo who is the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations in the Command.