At the Eiyenkorin axis of the Ilorin metropolis, the Kwara State Police Command has detained one of the suspects who is suspected of abducting Magistrate Jumoke Bamigboye’s wife, a former military administrator of the states of Bauchi and Osun.

On Thursday, when the suspects were being paraded at the police command headquarters in Ilorin, the commissioner of police, Paul Odama, revealed that the command had also detained 22 additional individuals and found weapons and charms.

He said that a vigilante and police anti-kidnapping squad working together on March 5, 2023, at around 2100 hours, apprehended Abubakar Shehu, aka Dogo, the suspected leader of the Magistrate’s kidnappers, after receiving information about the suspect’s movements in the region.

In addition to Dogo, he named Mohammed Aliyu, Yunusa Ahmadu, Malami Usman, and Dauda Amosa as members of the five-man group.

The inquiry into the matter, according to the commissioner, showed that Abubakar Shehu, aka Dogo, and his gang were responsible for the kidnapping of Alhaji Madaki Shaibu at the Aiyegun Fulani camp in January 2023, which resulted in the death of Shaibu’s son.

In collaboration with neighborhood vigilantes, Paul Odama reported that police officers assigned to the Banni Division also apprehended a second gang of five kidnappers in the Banni forest where they were hiding out.

He added that two of the suspects, Bayo Dudu and Aliyu Abubakar, are Niger State citizens and that during questioning the suspects admitted to being kidnappers.

The commissioner stated that efforts were being made to apprehend the abduction gang’s evading members.

The other suspects, according to Odama, were detained for alleged crimes including being part of a gang of thieves, attempting to commit culpable homicide, and being members of secret cults.

Based on the information that some suspected ritualists were spotted assembled at a remote hotel in Malete town, Moro Local Government Area of the state, they were detained on November 4, 2023.

He claimed that although the suspects who admitted to being internet fraudsters had a variety of damning goods recovered from them, including natural sponges, local pots with the mixture, and smartphones, “the command is examining them for ritual activities.”

Odama stated that as soon as the investigations are over, all the suspects will be charged in court.