Operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) in a well-cordinated covert operation on Sunday arrested two high-profile suspected kidnap kingpins as they made to depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia to observe the holy pilgrimage.
Security sources disclosed that the suspected kidnap kingpins had been under the DSS radar for over a year.
Sources said that screening at Hajj camps in different parts of the country offered the operatives the opportunity to arrest them.
According to the sources, DSS officers nabbed both kidnap kingpins at the Abuja and Sokoto Hajj camps.
While suspected kingpin Yahaya Yakubu, who lives in Paikon – Kore village in Gwagwalada area council of the FCTwas nabbed at the Abuja Hajj camp, Zamfara-born Sani Aliyu Galadi was arrested nearly 750 kilometres away at the Sokoto Hajj camp
DSS officers at the point of screening of both camps were able to promptly recognize and arrest Zango and Aliyu.
According to one of the security sources, Zango and Aliyu alias Mai Boxer, who is suspected to be responsible for attacks by bandits in the Sokoto- Zamfara axis, were oblivious of the fact that DSS officers were still on the lookout for them.
The source added that Aliyu had been flown from Sokoto to the DSS headquarters in Abuja.
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