Through his X handle, @Princemoye1, the Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi confirmed the development on Tuesday.
He also revealed that the force had taken significant steps to ensure that justice was served in the case.
He said, “We are making headway on this matter, and justice will be served, as some suspects have been arrested. Hakuna matata.”
According to reports, the businessman was kidnapped at one of his locations in Abuja by armed police officers, who held him captive until he gave them access to all of the funds in his bank account.
They then demanded that before he was allowed to leave, he call his friends and family and ask them to keep sending money.
In a viral video online, a narrator said, “I posted about the case of N29,900,000 police extortion in Abuja, Nigeria. Alright, I don’t know how to call it, whether it is police robbery, kidnapping or police extortion. But this is beyond extortion. This is criminal act and this is kidnapping and they collected from this young man is called ransom.
“All right, this young man was driving yesterday going to his site because he has a building project in Abuja here and he was stopped by some police officers who were dressed in black with Ak-47 seven rifle magazines and they took him away.
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“So they took him round Abuja, took him round because some cases we have witnessed before before, that’s how they always operate. Took him to an unknown destination. Like he told me yesterday and at a point he was scared. Where were they taking him to?
“So they started checking his phone, they saw his account balance, they saw his wallet and everything, and they told him to send all the money in his account to an account number they provided, they gave him two account numbers. One is Access Bank and one is Moniepoint. The man transferred all the money he has in his account and now started calling his friends, who were sending him three million, one million.
“In Abuja currently, you have heard about kidnapping cases, robbery cases and nobody knows who are these people operating like this. Now this act of these police officers; how do you describe it? Is in the robbery? Is it kidnapping or is it professional or work like carried out by them? Remember, no complaint was made against this young man. No statement was taken.
“You only forced him to make your video like other cases will be handling for years, they will force you to make a video to for you to indict yourself that you are either a fraudster or you are involved in cultism, you are involved in ritual, or you are member of IPOB, these are the trends from the cases we have handled for the past 9 years. This has been the trend of these rogue police officers.”
Within twenty-four hours, police officers from the Federal Capital Territory command apprehended five additional individuals and 20-year-old kidnap mastermind Buhari Muhammad in an Abuja hotel.
It was alleged that the suspects had abducted a man named Joshua Eze before they were apprehended based on intelligence about their whereabouts.
After being kidnapped on January 27, Eze was later freed without incident on January 28, 2024, by command personnel.
One AK-47 and N350,000 were found on the suspects, according to a statement released by the FCT command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, on Monday, announcing the arrest of the suspects.