Three suspects have been arrested by the police and are now being questioned over the kidnapping of a permanent secretary in the Adamawa State civil service.
The Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Mineral Resources, Mr Emmanuel Piridimso, was abducted on the 11th of this month by gunmen who demanded N25 million ransom but released him a couple of days later.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Sulaiman Yahaya Ngurore, who had on July 14 attributed the permanent secretary’s release to pressure from the police, told DAILY POST on Saturday that the personnel of the police who had remained on the trail of the kidnappers, had succeeded in turning in three of them.
He described them as Adamu Ahmadu and two others, as he could not immediately give the names of the three.
The PPRO said, “After the kidnapping about two weeks ago, the Commissioner of Police deployed men from anti-kidnap unit, men from IGP Rapid Response Unit and men from state CID and intelligence department to trace and arrest the suspects and free the victim.
“While the operation was on, the kidnappers got wind of the police being after them and decided to release the victim. After the police got the victim to make a statement of his experience, the police extracted useful information, including a phone number which led our intelligence department to one suspect, a resident of Bauchi Road (in Jimeta, Yola North LGA).”
The PPRO said that the suspect, whose name he could not confirm as at press time, was found to be an acquaintance of the permanent secretary as both “used to meet in certain places.”
He added that the suspect was the linkman who got the kidnappers onto the permanent secretary, and that on the day of the kidnap, he went with the kidnappers to the house and drove the kidnappers and the permanent secretary out in the permanent secretary’s car.
Explaining how the two other kidnappers were rounded up, the PPRO said that on the arrest and interrogation of the first one, he mentioned three others, and that while two were arrested in Maijaro village in Song LGA, one is still at large.
“The three we have so far, have confessed committing the crime and investigation has led us to the recovery of three fabricated AK 47 rifles hidden in a remote community called Bajale in Fufore LGA,” he said.
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