The police in Niger State have arrested five persons who claimed to be Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials to abduct students at the IBB University in Lapai, Niger State.
Our correspondent gathered that the fake operatives at the Students’ Lodge off campus forced the two students into a Toyota Corolla car with registration number ABJ 245 CU.
It was learnt their action raised suspicion among other students who immediately informed the police attached to the Lapai Division who mobilised and trailed the vehicle to Suleja Road by Kwakuti and initially arrested three suspects.
The police command spokesman in the state, Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the Emmanuel Linus of Deidei, Abuja, Hyelda Aliyu of Nyanya, Abuja and Abduljallid Tanko Karo also of Abuja as well as Mohammed Hassan and Hamisu Adamu both of Angwan-Hausa in Lapai who were the informants, were arrested.
“The suspects were arrested with the said vehicle, unfortunately, one Alfa James among the suspects escaped from the scene. During interrogation, they confessed that they were invited by their informants, as this is their means of livelihood,” the spokesman said.
He said they entered one of the students’ rooms with three electric tasers held as guns, collected five phones and abducted two of the students.
Abiodun said the suspects requested N10 million and later negotiated to N500,000 before they were arrested, saying they confessed that the identity cards used were designed at a shop in Nyanya, Abuja.
He said, “The informants gave Emmanuel Linus information about the students, having known each other in Paiko, Emmanuel was identified as a dismissed soldier with criminal records and ex-convict in the past two years.”
