5 Arrested Over Kidnapping Of Governor Bello's Mother

 On Tuesday the Nigeria police force said it had arrested five suspects in connection with the kidnapping of Gov. Yahaya Bello’s Mother in May 2014.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Hajia Hawawu Bello, 80, mother of Gov. Bello, the

then Managing Director of Fair Plus Transport Services, was kidnapped in Uvete, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi, on May 29, 2014.

Moshood said that items recovered from the suspects include: two AK-47 rifles; 20 live cartridges; one army camouflage inner wear; two army camouflage pair of trousers and two army camouflage caps. Others are one black Beretta; two plastic guns; three sharp knives and one axe. He said that all the suspects had confessed to the kidnapping of the governor’s mother and other robberies in FCT, Kogi and Niger.