7 Arrested As Police Foil Plot To Abduct Senator In Minna
A plot to abduct Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, who represents Niger East in the senate, was foiled on Sunday .
Sani, a member of the APC, who was in Minna, the Niger state capital, to attend the coronation and presentation of staff of office to the Emir of Kagara, Alhaji Ahmed Garba Gunna, was said to have left for Abuja immediately after the event.
Seven armed men , who must have trailed the senator from Abuja after getting information that he was in the state to attend the coronation ceremony, later attacked his Minna residence.
They had attempted to forced their way into the house but were repelled by the security agents and a reinforcement team from the Tudun-Wada police station.
‘The Senator had left for Abuja after attending the coronation and presentation of Staff of Office to the Emir of Kagara, Alhaji Ahmed Garba Gunna. But the gunmen came to the house.
However, luck ran out of them, when they were repelled and apprehended by heavily armed security men. Currently, they are being held in the custody’ a close associate of the senator reportedly said.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned spokesman for the Niger State Police Command, Wasiu Abiodun, a Deputy Superintendent of Police , had also confirmed the incident.
‘The fact of the incident is that on 03/12/2022 at about 1900hrs, based on a distress call received that some strange and suspicious persons, driving a Toyota Sienna vehicle with Reg. No. FKJ 814 GP invaded the house of the Senator located at Tudun-Wada, Minna.
The Command immediately mobilized tactical teams to the scene’ he said.
The four suspects arrested are ; Oladele Peter Akano (49) of Kuruduma, Abuja, Abdul Salisu (31) of Gwagwalada, Abuja, Felix Clarkson (47) of Karo Abuja and Babagana Alhaji (39) of Chideri-Polo, Maiduguri
Abiodun said during interrogation, the suspects claimed that they were mobilized by one Sherrif, now at large, a purported whistleblower, who had reportedly claimed to be an official of a security agency in Abuja.
‘Sherrif invited Akano, who is a teacher in a private school at Abuja. He also invited Clarkson, an instructor in a private institute ‘INSMO’ Abuja, Salisu who is a plumber from Gwagwalada, provided hammer and chisel for house breaking and Babagana Alhaji, with five others presently at large.
Suspects confessed further that Sherrif told them that foreign currencies and arms were kept at the residence of the senator , hence they travelled from Abuja to Minna for a purported execution of search without any warrant’ he added.
Abiodun said on getting to the senator’s residence, the security agents attached to the house suspected the fake team and raised the alarm for reinforcement, while the Policemen at the Tudun-Wada Police Division and Anti-kidnapping team of the Command were deployed to the scene.
He said a Toyota Sienna vehicle was recovered, while other suspects took to their heels on seeing the Police reinforcement teams.
The suspects have according to him been transferred to SCID Minna for investigation-Team@orientactualmags.com
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