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Musa Affos (Rhapsodi), Jalingo


The men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have reportedly arrested a High profile suspected kidnap kingpin in He was arrested in Garau community, a suburb of Karim lamido local government area of Taraba state.


It was gathered that the suspected kidnapper who was identified as Ubale Mohammed prior to his arrest has been on the watchlist of security agencies in Taraba state for several years.

The Taraba state commandant of the NSCDC, Muhammed Waksha while parading the suspect

before newsmen in Jalingo, revealed that the arrest was made following intensive intelligence gathering, surveillance, and smart operation of officers of the state command.


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Waksha further revealed that the suspect on sighting operatives of the NSCDC broke his sim card and threw away his mobile phone into a river to avoid being investigated to unveil his crimes and those linked to him. Adding that none of those linked to his crime will go without facing the wrath of the law as his men are widely spread across the state looking for them.

Recall that the NSCDC command had arrested and handed over another suspected kidnap kingpin Barde Bulala from the same Karim Lamido LGA of Taraba, whose confession led to the arrest of Ubale Mohammed. In his words:

” Yes, we do collaborate with not only Abba Kyari, but with also other agencies, and right now the one that is singing the music across the Federation was arrested by my command, we handed him over to Abba kyari and is yielding result ”

” It is based on intensive intelligence gathering, surveillance and cooperation by members of the public, because when the public has confidence in your activities, they give you reliable information and we do not just act on that, we have to also use our intelligence to monitor before we swing into action ”

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” This is also made possible through the cooperation of all security agencies and the activities of the kidnappers is declining ”

” Through proper profiling, we will have more information to go after his gang members on the run and we shall surely get them ”

As at the time of filing the report, the suspect has since been handed over to the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force, for further interrogation.