The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, Superintendent of Police Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement on Friday.
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A statement issued on Monday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the breakthrough followed recent kidnapping incidents in the ACO community, Gwagwalada, and Bwari, prompting the Commissioner of Police to direct the Anti-Kidnapping Unit to intensify efforts to dismantle the gang.
Adeh said the operation was conducted around 8 pm on Tuesday, October 22, 2025, by operatives of the command’s Scorpion Squad at Angwan Adamu Ruga Fulani Zone B, Riverside, Ado Mararaba, Nasarawa State.
The raid, according to the Command, was part of ongoing efforts to curb the resurgence of banditry and kidnapping around border communities in the FCT, particularly in Bwari, Kuje, and Gwagwalada councils, where security agencies have recently intensified patrols.
The clarification comes amid earlier reports suggesting that the journalist’s death was linked to alleged hospital negligence after she was taken to Maitama General Hospital.
Command spokesperson and a Superintendent of Police, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed that the operation took place from September 20 to 28, 2025.
According to Adeh, the Command received a distress call reporting that three children, including an eight-year-old girl, her three-year-old sister, and a nine-month-old baby, alongside their mother, had been forced out of their home by the suspect around midnight.
The operation, carried out on September 8, 2025, simultaneously covered Gwagwalada, Kubwa, Nyanya, Apo, Karmo, Maitama, Mabushi, Dawaki, Galadima, Asokoro, Karu, Jikwoyi, Mpape, Lokogoma, and Utako Divisions.
The Commissioner of Police made this revelation at a media parley organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Council in Abuja.