The Nigerian Army on Thursday arrested five “persons of interest” at a checkpoint after six AK-47 rifles were found with them along Share in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
“Five suspected kidnappers were arrested today along SHARE axis. They concealed six AK47 under the chacol in a Golf saloon car this afternoon,” a top security aide said on Thursday night.
“They were intercepted by the Nigerian Army team on PATROL. The five suspects are undergoing interrogation.”
Their arrest came a day after six persons suspected to be couriers for the kidnappers were arrested around Babanla, also in Ifelodun, with a large consignment of bread and petrol.
They were suspected of acting as couriers for kidnapping gangs in the axis.
They were arrested while hiding during a surveillance operation by government-backed local vigilantes around Babanla on Wednesday.
“They have been transferred to the police headquarters in Ilorin for further investigation,” according to a source.
Earlier on Tuesday, many criminals were reported eliminated in a coordinated assault by government vigilante forces in Omu Aran-Eruku.
Six motorcycles, assault rifles, and many loaded magazines were recovered from their hideouts.
Four women and two young men, all suspected to be abduction victims, were rescued and handed to the police divisional post in Omu Aran.
