Suspected Kidnapper from Plateau State, Apprehended In Ogun State
A suspected kidnapper, Christopher Yaro, on the run from Pankshin in Plateau state, has been arrested in Ogun state.
The suspect was alleged to have participated in the kidnapping of two catholic priests, fathers Kenneth Kanwa and Jude Nwachukwu.
Both priests of Saint Vincent De Paul Fier Catholic Church, Pankshin, were abducted last February 1, and N25 million ransom was demanded to release them.
The spokesperson of the Ogun state police command, Omolola Odutola, said the command got the wind on Monday that the suspect was in the state.
According to her, the suspect first moved to Ijebu Ode, before heading to ago Iwoye, where he was arrested on Monday.
The suspects were with four K.2 rifles when they carried out the crime. Yaro has been arrested. Further information will be made available to the public as soon as the investigation is completed.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro in a telephone interview on Tuesday, a security expert in peace, security, and development, Dr. Wale Ismail, advised the Federal Government to develop multi-level policing across all layers of security to stop suspects from evading justice.
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He said, The issue of arresting a kidnapping suspect in another state is not new, and it’s generally one of the major flaws of policing and security in Nigeria.
The big solution to this and other major security challenges in Nigeria is co-policing, or multi-layered policing.
Having federal policing alongside state and community policing and then opening up and expanding the private security market.
Nigeria can never be overpoliced, and it is better to be overpoliced than underpoliced anyway.
Also, a security analyst and the managing partner at Chive-GPS, Nnamdi Chife, said the government should digitize the country’s security architecture, which would make it difficult for a suspect to flee the community where he was alleged to have committed a crime.
For them to have arrested the guy, showed that there are some structures in place for active collaboration among the security agencies.
What they need now is to digitize the operation in such a way that a suspect can no longer escape from one state to another.
For instance, if it happens in Abuja, all Abuja needs to do is update the details of the suspect and issue bulletins across all its outposts.
With this, suspects will no longer find it easy to escape from one state to another”, Chief stated.
