{"id":73966,"date":"2025-08-23T05:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73966"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:57:20","slug":"counter-kidnapping-operation-fct-police-arrests-two-kingpins-recovers-n7-4m-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/23\/counter-kidnapping-operation-fct-police-arrests-two-kingpins-recovers-n7-4m-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-kidnapping Operation: FCT Police Arrests Two Kingpins, Recovers N7.4m, Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arrested two notorious kidnapping kingpins, recovering N7.4 million and dangerous weapons in a major counter-kidnapping operation.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, confirmed on Friday that the suspects; Masud Abdullahi, alleged ringleader from Karu, Nasarawa State, and Muhammad Tahir from Jos, Plateau State were captured in collaboration with the Nasarawa State Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>The operation followed a distress report on August 16, 2025, after the abduction of a resident, Henry Chichi, from an estate in Karu, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s Anti-Kidnapping Unit launched an immediate offensive, forcing the gang to release the victim unharmed on August 17.<\/p>\n<p>While some members escaped, Abdullahi and Tahir were arrested. They later led operatives to the gang\u2019s hideout in Karshi Forest, Nasarawa State, where a third suspect, 22-year-old Kabiru Jibril, was also arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered items include N7.4 million in cash, three AK-47 rifles with magazines, a G3 rifle, sixteen rounds of live ammunition, and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police, Ajao Adewale, commended the professionalism of officers involved and assured residents that efforts were ongoing to track down other fleeing suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arrested two notorious kidnapping kingpins, recovering N7.4 million and dangerous weapons in a major counter-kidnapping operation. Police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, confirmed on Friday that the suspects; Masud Abdullahi, alleged ringleader from Karu, Nasarawa State, and Muhammad Tahir from Jos, Plateau State were captured in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73968,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions\/73968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}