Police kill wanted Kidnap Kingpin terrorizing FCT

Police operatives attached to the Department of Force Intelligence – Intelligence Response Team (DFI-IRT), as well as anti-violent crimes section, anti-kidnapping section and other state commands, have neutralised a wanted kidnap kingpin, Mai Gemu also known as Godara.

It was gathered that the kidnap kingpin was killed at about 1:40 am on Friday alongside two other members of his gang after a fierce gun battle that lasted several minutes between security operatives and the deadly gang.

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Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this to journalists during a press briefing at the headquarters of IRT in Guzape, Abuja on Friday.

Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, explained that some of the bandits were the ones terrorising innocent citizens from Bwari, an outskirt of the nation’s capital, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.

He stressed that this was another significant stride towards fortifying the security landscape in the FCT following the recent launch of the Special Intervention Squad (SIS).

According to the police spokesman, security operatives would not relent in combing bushes and shanties in border areas between the FCT, Niger, Kaduna, and Nasarawa states.

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“In the early hours of today (Friday), at about 0140hrs, operatives of the DFI-IRT engaged some bandits within the axis in a fierce gun battle and neutralized 3 of them including their gang leader known as Mai Gemu a.k.a Godara.

“We can say without mincing words, that the gang and its camp have been destroyed. The gangs and many others who venture into crime and kidnapping in Bwari, border communities linking to the Kaduna axis would never know peace as our concentrated efforts are being intensified,” Adejobi told journalists at the briefing.