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THE
Directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) has foiled attempts by
two suspects to kidnap one of the daughters of the late former
president, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, in Abuja, as it also arrested two
kingpins who plotted the abduction, with four others said to be on the
run.
The spokesperson of the service, Marilyn Ogar, who paraded the two
suspects, Hamza Abubakar and Lawrence Okoro Dennis, said the gang had
plotted to kidnap one of the daughters of the late former president at a
construction site at Kado, a suburb of Abuja, before the operatives of
the service, acting on a tip-off, struck.
She disclosed that the suspects, working in collaboration with four
others now at large, had planned to kidnap their target and detain her
in Zuba, another suburb of Abuja, in a residence of an acquaintance to
one of the arrested suspects.
Both suspects were said to have been former inmates at Kano central prison and reunited after their release sometime this year.
Ogar, who assured that the two suspects would be charged to court as
soon as the ongoing investigations were concluded, said the service
would leave no stone un-turned to track the fleeing suspects in order to
bring them to justice.
Leader of the gang, Denis, while fielding questions from newsmen
confessed that he had just been released from the prison after he had
served 13 years jail term and admitted to being the brain behind the
plot, while Abubakar also admitted participating in the plot.
In a related development, the service also smashed a syndicate who
specialised in forging educational certificates, Indian visas, Nigerian
international passports and fraudulent mobilisation of fake corps
members, leading to mobilisation of about 30 fake corps members
nationwide, using forged certificates and NYSC call-up numbers.
Leader of the syndicate, Nicholas Eze,who graduated from the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 2006, was paraded along with
other five fake serving corps members from whom he had collected various
amount of money ranging from N70,000 to N120,000, all amounting to
N530,000, before he was able to produce them fake NYSC call-up letters
for mobilisation as genuine corps members.
All the five fake corps members paraded along with the syndicate
leader, three females and two males, confessed to having committed the
offence, but explained that they took the action because of one problem
or the other they had in their different institutions.
The service also paraded one 65-year-old retired civil servant, Elias
Adams, who had been parading himself as General Abubakar Sani, with the
intent of duping and intimidating individuals and corporate
organisations, including the Pipelines Products Marketing Company
(PPMC).
Ogar told newsmen that the suspect was nabbed following a complaint
received from the management of the PPMC over his dubious activities
and, as well, presenting himself to the management of the company that
he was the Special Adviser to the President on Defence and also a
co-ordinating member of the National Committee on Flood Relief and
Rehabilitation.
The fake army General was also said to have impersonated a former
Minister of Defence and secured up to five lorry load of diesel from the
Warri and Kaduna NNPC depots respectively, claiming that the former
minister mandated him to distribute the products to Muslims for sallah
celebration in Takum, Taraba State.
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