The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested three more people suspected to be members of the kidnapping ring that abducted the Dean of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Samuel Okunsebor.
The three suspects arrest increased the number of individuals nabbed over fhe abduction to five after two suspects, including a lady, were arrested by the DSS at the time.
The arrest came barely three weeks after the professor was rescued by DSS operatives 48 hours his abduction at Mile Uku, a border community between Lafia and Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of the state.
A security source disclosed that DSS operatives arrested the three other members of the kidnapping gang yesterday at a local brothel on the Mararraban Akunza, Lafia – Makurdi highway.
“The suspects were identified as 25-year-old Yakubu Abubakar (aka Black/Starboy), of the Doemak tribe in Plateau State; 37-year-old Usman Abubakar Mairiga, and 27-year-old Sale Babauro Abubakar. Mairiga and Abubakar are Hausa and Fulani, respectively, the source added.
The source also disclosed that the suspects are in the custody of the state command for further investigations.
The move, he added, followed a valid detention warrant from a magistrate’s court.