Nigeria: Five Held Over Kidnap of Kogi Speaker's Children

14 August 2014

Lokoja — A Lokoja Chief Magistrate's Court has remanded five persons in prison over their involvement in the kidnap of the speaker's children. Two children of the Speaker of the Kogi House of Assembly, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal, were kid-napped a few months ago.

The suspects, Ibrahim Garba, Usman Musa, Husseini Ovaku, Husseini Umar and Ogah Sunday, were charged with criminal cons-piracy, armed robbery, belonging to an unlawful society and kidnapping contrary to sections 97(1), 289(c) and 100 of the Penal Code and 3(3) and 7 of the Kogi State Kidnapping, Thuggery and other related Offences (Prohibition) Law, 2010.

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