IGP gives orders to apprehend kidnappers, other criminals

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Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom pledges to stop negotiation with criminals

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Acting Inspector General of Police has directed policemen across the country to defend themselves against attackers.

The Nigeria Police Force earlier today paraded 81 suspects arrested between April and May 2021.

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has warned his men against human rights violation.

Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday (July 25) but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria carried out by Islamist militants and more recently, criminal gangs.

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.

Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwestern Nigeria months ago have released 10 more of the hostages. But 21 others still remain in captivity.