Police arrest mother of 2, others over robbery, kidnapping in Abuja

<p>The Police Command in FCT has arrested one Bunmi Samuel, mother of two, her boyfriend and 12 others, over alleged various crimes, including kidnapping, armed robbery and burglary.</p>, <p>The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Haruna Garba, who paraded the suspects at the command headquarters on Thursday in Abuja, said the suspects were arrested at different locations in the territory.</p>, <p>Garba said that various assorted weapons, vehicles, laptops, phones, musical instruments, among others, were recovered from the suspects.</p>, <p>According to him, a 36-year-old Bunmi Samuel was arrested along with his boyfriend, who specialised in snatching GSM Phones from innocent commuters.</p>, <p>“After snatching phones, he removes the SIM cards and sells the phone, then hands over the SIM cards to his girlfriend, one Bunmi Samuel.</p>, <p>“The girlfriend, on her part, makes withdrawals of all monies from the accounts that are linked to the SIM cards.</p>, <p>“The police operatives have so far recovered 76 SIM cards, two Opay ATM cards and a golden wrist watch from the suspects,” he said.</p>, <p>He said that the police operatives, in collaboration with the vigilante, also arrested five suspects, namely, Bernard Francis, Felix Benjami, Peter Benjamin, Helen Sylvester, and Hamza Haruna, over their alleged involvement in kidnapping of a minor.</p>, <p>According to him, police also arrested a 26-year-old Kennedy Esezobor of Tudun Wada village, Lugbe, FCT a notorious criminal and cultist, with one fabricated single barrel gun and locally fabricated AK-47 rifle</p>, <p>He said the operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit of the Command, acting on actionable intelligence, stormed Kabin Mongoro Forest and arrested one Mohammed Hamza while on his way to bandits camp bordering Nasarawa State.</p>, <p>“The suspect confessed to being an informant, a drug and food supplier to one Dogo,” he said.</p>, <p>According to him, the command, in a swift operation, impounded six vehicles between August 30 and August 31, bearing both foreign an