Police parades Gang liable for Kidnap of Bagudu Hirse & other High Profile Personalities

On the 1st January, 2017 operatives attached to the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT) after a sustained surveillance, smashed the vicious and very notorious kidnap for ransom gang that have been terrorizing Kaduna and neighbouring States, responsible for the kidnap of several important personalities in the recent past.

The gang was smashed with the arrest of Dominic Nwakpa a.k.a Alhaji, who is the gang leader, in Lagos state, while four other principal suspects and members of the gang, namely Balat Paul, driver of the gang, Ibrahim Samuel aka “IB” and Jatau Peter – a dismissed Policeman were arrested on the 1st January, 2017 in their hideouts at Dan Hassan Road Ungwa Boro Kaduna, while Afini Paul, a female member who cooks for the gang and the victims, rented the house at Yusuf Patrick close, Mararaba Rido, Kaduna where victims are kept before ransom money is collected, was arrested at their hideout


Ifeanyi Chukwu the 2nd in command of the gang was arrested in a Hotel in Ogbor Hill, area of Abia State. He confessed to be the second in command of the gang that kidnapped the Ambassador and so many other kidnappings within and outside Kaduna, Abia, Imo, Rivers, and Delta States.



The suspects upon interrogation admitted that they are the criminal gang that kidnapped the former Minister of State for foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse on 20th November, 2016 in GRA, Kaduna and collected ransom before he was released.


The same gang confessed to the kidnap of Dr. Abdulmalik Durunguwa and his wife in their residence at different intervals in Kaduna. Ransom was also collected by the gang from the family of the victims before they were released.



A Member of Kaduna State House of Assembly Hon. Ibrahim Samaila was also kidnapped by the gang on 26th August, 2016 at Abakpa area of Kaduna and undisclosed ransom money was collected by the gang before his release.


On the 6th of January, 2017 the last suspect Clinton Abere was trailed and arrested in a Hotel in Lagos after jumping out of the window of his hotel room on sighting the operatives. He is currently receiving treatment at Police Hospital from injury he sustained in the process of attempting to escape arrest.




All the seven suspects while undergoing interrogation admitted to the various criminal roles they played in the commission of the crimes. They will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation