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Mastermind of CBN boss’ wife’s kidnap, arrested inside the shop he opened with the ransom .

The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested the 10th gang member in the CBN Governor’s wife kidnap saga of September 2016, Umar Abubakar aka Kiriwa, after trailing him to Minna, Niger State, on 9th December, 2016.

Umar Abubakar, one of the arrow heads of the dare devil kidnapping gang, led detectives to 2 houses and 3 plots of empty land he purchased with his share of the ransom.

The arrested kingpin confessed that he used N3m, part of the ransom, to open a provision shop in Minna, Niger State, which he was running with his wife.
The original papers of the houses and plots of land have been recovered and registered as exhibits and the shop also sealed.

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