Police recover N8.4m from 20-year-old arrested kidnap suspect
Commissioner of Police, Bauchi Command, displays the N8.4 million cash recovered from the kidnap suspect and others.
The Police Command in Bauchi State says it has arrested a 20-year old kidnap/armed robbery suspect and recovered the sum of N8.4 million cash from him.
Mr Umar Sanda, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said this while briefing newsmen on activities of the command in Bauchi on Tuesday.
He said the command arrested the suspect at Tashan Daudu Soro, Ganjuwa LGA, on Sept. 9, for criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping and being in possession of prohibited firearms and ammunition.
He said that police operatives recovered N8.466,000.00 cash, one SubMachine Gun (SMG) rifle with 92 live ammunition, one empty magazine, SMG rifle and one 7.62mm caliber of live ammunition from the suspect.
Sanda said other exhibits recovered from the suspect included: eight different models of mobile phones, one MP3, one Honda motorcycle and one cutlass.
He said the suspect claimed innocence, and that he was not aware of the exhibits.
The CP said the suspect claimed that all the exhibits belonged to his boss whom he simply identified as Ibrahim, adding that the boss was taking him out on his motorcycle to work as a pastoralist before the police arrested him.
He recounted how his boss, on sighting the police, pushed him and the motorcycle then took to his heels, saying if he was an accomplice, he would have also fled.
